Sentences with phrase «wealth as an impediment»
David Bentley Hart's reflections on the «ingenious ways» in which Christians over the centuries have sought to get around «the plain meaning of Christ's words» about wealth as an impediment to entering the kingdom of God brought to mind the old story of Angus the Scotsman.
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Wealth, on the other hand, is regarded at best as an impediment to righteousness and at worst as a positive evil.
It seems to me that if Christians took Jesus seriously, we would approach wealth with great trepidation, seeing it not as an entitled right, but as a potentially dangerous impediment to the gospel.