{"id":2885,"date":"2022-06-17T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","slug":"wealth-and-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2885","title":{"rendered":"WEALTH AND INDEPENDENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Wesley feared rising wealth among Christians would result &#8220;in pride, in anger, in the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s add one more item to his list that might be just as bad or worse: &#8220;independence leading to poverty of relationship&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we have enough money, we don&#8217;t have to rely on family, friends, or neighbors for help.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a small example of the sort of thing that happens daily in one way or another:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Say you need to clean your gutters. It&#8217;s once a year, and it&#8217;s your only need for a ladder. You have noticed that your neighbor has a nice one, just the right height. So what do you do?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go to Lowes&#8217; and buy your own.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That way you don&#8217;t have to speak to your neighbor. And you won&#8217;t owe <i><b>him <\/b><\/i>a favor.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Wesley feared rising wealth among Christians would result &#8220;in pride, in anger, in the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life.&#8221; Let&#8217;s add one more item to his list that might be just as bad or worse: &#8220;independence leading to poverty of relationship&#8221;.\u00a0 When we have enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2886,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/2886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}