{"product_id":"christian-case-for-bitcoin-patrick-melder-9798201772208","title":"The Christian Case for Bitcoin | Patrick C. Melder","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Christian Case for Bitcoin: Bitcoin Redeems Money. How Does This Affect Christians and Why We Should Care. | Patrick C. Melder, MD\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Romans 12:9-10\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—1 John 3:18\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—1 Corinthians 10:24\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Book:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe above verses are but a few of the ways in which the apostles sought to articulate to early churches what it meant to think and live as Christ did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn and Paul sought to articulate in plain language the radical worldview through which Christ and his people see the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuch a vision stood in stark relief to the Roman world into which Christ and his Gospel were born.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCelebrity sophists and their vapid speeches filled the public square.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall business owners faced increasing pressure to either openly or secretly decrease the quality of the goods and services they offered in order to try to keep pace with an increasingly devalued Roman currency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCesar and his government placed ever-increasing pressure through fear, taxes, and forced worship upon penalty of violence in order to try to maintain peace throughout its multicultural empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmidst so many complicated issues and increasing justification to think and act to the contrary, the apostles advocated the same path that their crucified and resurrected Lord had walked: counter-cultural self-sacrificial love of God and neighbor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA burning desire to know Christ through knowing his pain, his lack, his fullness, and his eternal life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey were called to look down the most dominant empire in the world to that point and declare with their mouths and lives, “No God but Christ.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the perspective of the Roman and Jewish powers that were, it was a fool’s errand, yet God has been using the foolish things of the world to bring to nothing the things that seem strong, important, and real since the beginning of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the span of two centuries the Church turned the world upside down by refusing to budge an inch on their God-defined and love-borne action, regardless of the risk and inconvenience involved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cultural climate in which the Church finds itself in 2021 is not nearly as different from the early church as one might imagine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCelebrity worship and social media lend undue credibility and importance to the most extreme and novel voices, enabling them to capture the attention of tens of millions, especially the young.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMicroprocessors and the internet have created an increasingly interconnected and multicultural world. One hundred years of central banking has seen the US dollar lose 99% of its purchasing power and enabled endless wars to be waged the world over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd that doesn’t even take into account the carnage that has been waged upon the most vulnerable peoples globally via their currencies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGovernments the world over have become hopelessly encumbered by debt while confidently asserting that they have everything under control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir behavior has also normalized unsustainable levels of debt among their citizenry, leaving an increasingly large percentage dependent upon government safety net programs for their daily bread, a responsibility that does not belong to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow should the church respond to all of these challenges?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe answer is the same today as it was 2000 years ago: a radical self-responsibility and commitment to the word and work of God.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dogged refusal to be swept along by the “inevitable” tide of man-centered, sowing and reaping denying, future forsaking Christ-less secularism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat could any of that possibly have to do with Bitcoin?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat question is what this book aims to answer, to the glory of God and for the good of His people. In Jesus, JM Bush\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49824409878843,"sku":"8201772208","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/9798201772208.jpg?v=1787743764","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/christian-case-for-bitcoin-patrick-melder-9798201772208","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}