My last post addressed how America is going to be reshaped by the financial crisis and I looked at some ways that the church could respond. Today, I primarily wanted to show you this graph of falling home prices and point you to this excellent article that should scare the pants off of you and cause you to look to Jesus alone if you are a Christian:
http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/quinn/2009/0218.html (HT: John Stickley)
God has a purpose for His Church in all of this if we would but open our eyes and be salt and light. I believe that He has a purpose for the local church that I pastor in our community as people begin to struggle. Isaiah 58 is a guiding passage for me in all of this. Unless my hope is in the Lord, I will not be able to offer hope to others. Unless I am looking to Christ, I will not be able to point others to Christ. We need to be aware of what is happening in our nation and help people trust in Christ instead of what is fading away.
More on this later . . .
FWIW, Google Safe Browsing warns that the FinancialSense website is a suspected distributor of malware.
Posted by: Bart Barber | March 05, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Thanks, Bart. I have not seen anything on my computer. I wonder if John Stickley has had any problems? At any rate, it is a good article.
Posted by: Alan Cross | March 05, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Just looking at the NYT graph, it seems to me that the housing market is less crumbling than returning to historical norms after a decidedly ahistorical boom.
Posted by: Steven Taylor | March 07, 2009 at 09:14 PM