"They only think about money" - but why profit is profitable
Money ruins everything.” “They only care about profit.” These are familiar laments in our culture. Sometimes they come from real pain—betrayed workers, greedy executives, price hikes that crush the poor. Those wounds are real. Yet if we turn that pain into a blanket condemnation of profit itself, we risk despising the very mechanism through which God sustains daily life. Profit is not evil; it’s necessary. No family, congregation, or nation can live long by consuming more than it creates. In Scripture, the wise steward is not the one who buries his talent in fear, but the one who multiplies it in trust (Matthew 25). Creation itself runs on increase—seeds multiply, herds grow, skills improve. The drive to produce, to improve, to create value is not greed; it is part of the divine imprint of stewardship. When We Forget How Wealth Is Made Many who condemn “money-making” mistake the abuses of the system for the system itself. They see corruption and conclude production is ev...
