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 SOCIALISM: A Christian Response (Part 1) | VCY

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 SOCIALISM: A Christian Response (Part 1)

Welcome!

I’m Bub Kuns, and today we’re talking about socialism.

Did you know that long before Karl Marx, the Pilgrims had a failed experiment with socialism?

When the Pilgrims first arrived in America, Governor Bradford arranged for them to have a communal farm. Everyone would share the harvest of crops equally, no matter how much each person helped — or didn’t. CLASSIC SOCIALISM!

This, of course, removed incentive for the Pilgrims to work, so many did not. Realizing there would be a scant harvest, Bradford changed course and gave each settler HIS OWN piece of land to farm, allowing each to keep what he grew. With this incentive, the Pilgrims began working hard, and when harvest eventually came, the new colony’s crops were abundant. 

Believers today should learn from the Pilgrims’ failed experiment with socialism, seeing the value of incentive for achieving God-given potential.

And how else should Christians respond to socialism? We’ll discuss that another time.

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December 27 | Your Spiritual Pilgrimage

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Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 9:26–27

Key Verses: 2 Timothy 4:6–7

I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Literally and figuratively it is the final chapter of Paul’s life. Writing from the dungeons of Rome and nearing his execution, Paul closed his second letter to his understudy Timothy with a ringing manifesto: “I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Tim. 4:6–7).

The aged campaigner for the gospel was facing death just as he had faced life, boldly and fearlessly. His trademark confidence was still at full mast. Paul understood the significance of ending well. He had compared the spiritual life to a race, the goal of which is to finish (1 Cor. 9:26–27).

Do you have the long-term goal in mind of ending with a solid testimony for Christ? If so, you can deal with momentary afflictions from a perspective of endurance and steadfastness. You may be perplexed, but you will move on. You may be bruised, but you will recover for the next leg of the journey.

What would you like others to think and say when you conclude your spiritual pilgrimage? What do you need to do now to make that possible? You can run well and end well when knowing Christ is your consuming passion.

Father God, I want to end my spiritual pilgrimage with a solid testimony. Strengthen me for the next leg of the journey. Help me to continue to run the race and end well.1

1  Stanley, C. F. (1999). On holy ground (p. 378). Thomas Nelson Publishers.