People with poor financial habits — who are sloppy or stingy with their money, who spend with minimal self-control and mismanage their own finances — usually don’t succeed over time in leading a church into fruitfulness. John Finkelde

As elsewhere, you can’t fit Jesus’ resurrection into anyone else’s world view. That isn’t surprising; the resurrection inaugurates God’s new creation. It transforms the old world, but it can’t fit into the categories of the old world. Tom Wright