re: United Methodist Church special session this week

Lydia was an entrepreneur and not called to repent of that. The tax collectors weren’t told to quit their jobs but to stop taking more than they were assigned to take.

Property rights and capitalistic philosophy dominate the scriptures from an economic standpoint. The “communism” of Acts was actually charitable and free giving, not forced redistribution of wealth. Even the slaying of Ananias and Saphira was due to fraud and lying, not their desire to profit from selling their property.