“The current recession has pointed to significant cracks in the giving landscape of churches and ministries. Perhaps more significantly, those cracks point to a theology of money that is antiquated or misguided. In some cases, this improper theology of money has artificially caused people to limit their giving.
The demographic, social, and political factors staring us in the face cannot be ignored. It is time to rethink our theology of money. How we do that rethinking may do much to determine whether we are in a short-term recession or if we are in for the long winter.
While it’s clear that the work of the gospel of Jesus Christ will go on regardless, it’s encouraging to think that we might speed up that work by capturing the billions of dollars that will become available in the next few years.”
William F. High in “Short-Term Recession or the Long Winter? Rethinking the Theology of Money” in Christian Research Journal (2010) 33:31-38.