Abolish the Jesus Trade: Spread the Joy of Freely Giving

Years ago Randy Alcorn observed, "In the Christian community today there is more blindness, rationalization, and unclear thinking about money than anything else." Abolish the Jesus Trade aims to help reverse this assessment. The Church is currently marked by underdeveloped thinking about Scripture's teaching on money and ministry. The sale of the sacred has been normalized, not by prosperity preachers, but by conservative evangelicals. Busy building paywalls, we have torn down the sincerity of the Body of Christ.
Conley Owens, Jon Here, and Andrew Case present this collection of articles that seek to exalt the radical generosity of God's heart, confront the commercialization of Christianity, and promote the biblical teaching that ministry should be supported but never sold. We are living in a time like the antebellum United States, where the majority of ministers regularly defended the slave trade from the pulpit, just as they defend the Jesus trade today. This calls for repentance, reform, and a return to Scripture's primacy over economic expediency.

Andrew Case grew up on the mission field in Oaxaca, Mexico, and is a graduate of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the Canada Institute of Linguistics. He and his wife Bethany serve in Bible translation and training, helping make the Bible available in different languages of Mexico and Equatorial Guinea, and teaching Hebrew to the world over at freehebrew.online. Andrew's fiction and nonfiction writing, along with the music he creates can be found on his website hismagnificence.com. His podcast on Bible translation is called Working for the Word. Visit workingfortheword.com to find out more.