The Theology of Money: What Your Money Reveals About God, Fear, Wealth, and the Human Heart (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798171420246)

This book will not tell you what to do with your money. It will show you what your money is doing to you.

We earn it. Spend it. Save it. Invest it. Give it. Worry about it. Fight over it. Work years of our lives for it.

But beneath all our financial decisions lies a deeper question:

Can God be trusted?

The Theology of Money begins where most money books do not-with the human heart.

From Eden's first crisis of trust to the pressures of modern economic life, Steve Mutuku explores how money exposes our deepest beliefs about security, scarcity, success, ownership, wealth, enough, and God Himself.

This is not a prosperity book. It is not an argument for poverty. And it is not another Christian budgeting manual.

It is an examination of the financial soul.

What if scarcity can exist even when nothing is missing?

What if money is really frozen time-pieces of human life converted into value?

What if every price tag represents a claim on somebody's labour?

What if the things we call mine were never truly ours, but were entrusted to us for a time?

And what if the greatest danger of wealth is not having too much, but allowing what we possess to slowly possess us?

Drawing from Scripture, theology, economics, and ordinary human experience, The Theology of Money examines the rival economies of God and Mammon and asks what it means to earn diligently, spend wisely, save prudently, invest responsibly, give joyfully, and still keep the heart free.

It confronts questions many financial books avoid:

When does saving become fear dressed as wisdom? How much is enough? What does your salary say about the value of your time? What do the wages you pay reveal about the value you place on someone else's? Can you build wealth without losing your soul? And if everything ultimately belongs to God, what does it really mean to say, "This is mine"?

With practical tools for personal reflection, couples, families, churches, and small groups, this book moves beyond financial behaviour to the beliefs underneath it.

Because one day salaries will stop. Markets will close. Portfolios will pass into other hands. Everything we spent a lifetime accumulating will eventually belong to someone else.

The final question will not simply be how much we accumulated.

It will be who we became while it was in our hands.

Money never created the person. It simply revealed who was already there.