Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. Luke 18:25
“This passage from the New Testament, and many, many others stress the threat that money and possessions pose to one’s relationship with Jesus. The point of these passages is not that money in itself is evil. Rather, the point is that wealth has a way of luring us to trust in it. Wealth has a way of convincing us to stake our future on our accumulation of it. Wealth has a way of tricking us into thinking that without it we are nothing. When we fall into this trap, we have started trusting in something other than our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
Charles R. Lane in Ask, Thank, Tell: Improving Stewardship Ministry in Your Congregation (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 2006) 39.