Living With Wealth Without Losing Your Soul: A Pastor’s Journey from Guilt to Grace - Hardcover

Perry, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 079534855X ISBN 13: 9780795348556

Publisher: Rosettabooks, 2016

Synopsis

Once upon a time, a faithful, God-fearing boy fell in love with the girl of his dreams...

As a young man, Pastor Steve Perry passionately followed a philosophy of non-pursuit of wealth as he moved towards a Christian life. He held the not-uncommon belief that poverty was more virtuous than prosperity and was a path to becoming closer to God.

But God had a different plan. When Perry found himself in love―with a woman whose family was wealthy―the accompanying internal struggle forced him to reconcile his beliefs with his reality. Of course, he turned to God for a deeper understanding of how to integrate wealth and faith.

For many Christians, wealth is accompanied by a certain measure of guilt, compelling them to hide their prosperity for fear of being judged. In Living With Wealth Without Losing Your Soul, Perry analyzes some of the common modern understandings of bible passages and parables to show that justly earned wealth is as much a gift from God as any of His other gifts. Using a combination of exegesis and practical life examples, Perry suggests that wealthy Christians need not be stealth Christians, but instead can steward their wealth in order to help fund the kingdom for years to come.

Though Perry acknowledges that money can be the root of evil, his clarification of this popular verse suggests that money simply magnifies who a person really is. In this way, wealth is a magnifier of a Christian life and can actually bring one closer to God.

About this title

About the Author

Steve Perry graduated from Azusa Pacific University in 1975 with a B.A. in Religion, and later earned a Masters of Divinity from Wartburg Theological Seminary in 1979. He served as Associate Pastor of Grace Lutheran (’79-’84, Huntington Beach, CA) and Senior Pastor of Mission Lutheran Church (’84-’96, Laguna Niguel, CA). In 1996, Perry co-founded the Foundation for Christian Stewardship (now the National Christian Foundation California) and in 2003 he founded the Sacred Harvest Foundation with his wife, Susie. Currently, Perry serves on the boards of Azusa Pacific University, National Christian Foundation California, and Mission Increase Foundation. Steve met his wife, Susie, at Azusa Pacific University, and they were married on December 27, 1975. They have two married children, Jennifer and Matthew, and two grandchildren.

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But the true uniqueness of this book is that Steve has experienced both sides of the wealth equation, since he was not born with it. He grew up in a middle-class American family and knew nothing of great capacity until he married Susie, who comes from a family of great means. This single reality, combined with his own perceptiveness, together have provided Steve with a potent viewpoint that you won’t find anywhere else and which adds greatly to the value of his book. (John Townsend)|Wealth is important to us all―but it is also important to God. The Bible has a great deal to say on the subject, as you will discover in this book. So we must understand it. That is why Steve Perry’s book is such a winner. (John Townsend)

Edition details

• Publisher: Rosettabooks
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 079534855X
• ISBN 13: 9780795348556
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244