You're not cold.
You're not on fire.
You're just comfortable.
And that's the problem.
Lukewarm faith doesn't fight sin.
It just learns to live with it.
The most dangerous place to be spiritually is thinking
"I'm fine."
I had two abortions. I ran a Planned Parenthood clinic and even was named employee of the year. But Jesus met me in my brokenness, forgave me, and transformed my life.
No one is beyond His mercy. If He can redeem my story, He can redeem anyone’s.
Social Classes Are Not Permanent!!!
People constantly say, “The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the top 1% keeps getting richer.”
But something that is often ignored is that the top 1% is a pool of people, not the exact same people sitting at the top forever.
People are constantly moving in and out. In fact, recent Federal Reserve research found that one-third of people in the top 1% leave it after just one year, and about two-thirds are no longer there after ten years.
I have seen people move out of poverty and completely change their economic position.
Look at Myron Golden. He talks about going from working as a trash-truck driver and struggling financially to educating himself about money, sales, and business and eventually becoming a multimillionaire.
That’s what people miss when they talk about social classes as if they are permanent.
And even when you get to extreme wealth, the idea that everybody at the top was simply born there doesn’t hold up. Forbes says 67% of the world’s billionaires in 2026 are self-made.
This is also where I disagree with Marx.
Marx looked at society largely through classes: the bourgeoisie who own the means of production and the proletariat who sell their labor. He writes in The Communist Manifesto that communism would deprive people of the ability to use appropriation to “subjugate the labour of others.”
But this is where I disagree: employment itself is not subjugation.
You have something of value, whether that’s your labor, knowledge, skills, ideas, or time, and someone else has something of value that they’re willing to exchange for it. And you’re not permanently stuck with the value you currently bring.
You can learn. You can improve your skills. You can change jobs. You can negotiate. You can start a business. You can invest. You can go from employee to employer.
Does everybody start equally? No.
Does everybody have the exact same opportunities? No.
Does everybody who works hard become a millionaire? Obviously not.
But that’s completely different from saying your economic class is permanent.
People move up. People move down.
And that’s exactly what the data on the top 1% shows. Don’t be a victim, learn the game!
Prosperity Is Relative
I think one thing we often miss when talking about prosperity, especially as Christians, is that prosperity is relative…
I saw this clearly while living in Africa. I heard people criticize the “prosperity gospel” and point to things like owning a car as evidence of excessive prosperity. Yet in much of America, owning a car is not even considered prosperity; it is practically a necessity for everyday life. Here, the conversation might instead become, “Why do you need that expensive car?” or “Why do you need that big of a house?”
And that reveals something: our definition of “too much” often changes depending on what we ourselves consider normal. It is just shaped by society and not scripture.
We see someone with a large house, but we don’t ask how many people live there. We see an expensive building, but we don’t ask what is being accomplished through it. We see someone with significant wealth, but we don’t know the size of their responsibilities, the people they employ, the projects they fund, the problems they are solving, or the vision they are carrying.
Prosperity is also relative to the size of your vision.
If your vision only requires $10,000, then $1 million may look excessive to you. But if someone else’s vision requires building schools, employing thousands of people, funding missionaries, creating businesses, producing media, feeding communities, or reaching nations, then $1 million may not even be enough to accomplish it.
As Christians, we have to be careful not to turn having money into the same thing as loving money!
The Bible condemns greed. It condemns oppression. It condemns dishonesty and making wealth your god. But the amount of money someone possesses, by itself, does not tell you the condition of their heart. Ministers are called to be in the world winning souls, not monks!
Sometimes what we call “too much” simply means more than what we personally understand needing.
Instead of immediately asking, “Why does that person have so much?” maybe we should also ask:
What have they been entrusted to do with it? How am I currently doing with my finances? Stop being a busy body in other peoples matters and focus on what you can do for the Lord.