A Story of The Bitter, The Wealthy, and The Foreigner: Use Your Wealth FOR Others

Would you consider yourself wealthy? Does the nature of this question make you uncomfortable? Even if it does, the reality is that on a global scale, our culture is very affluent, and many of us are too. This acknowledgement leads to an unavoidable implication: when we read about wealth in the Biblical narrative, that’s us. What Jesus said to the wealthy, he said to us. When a character in a story is wealthy, let’s lean in because we naturally relate. That’s the case as we finish our series by doing a character study on Boaz, the Wealthy. If we lean in, it’s very likely that we can see strengths we need to lean into and weaknesses that we need to lean out of.