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Monday 1 March 2010

The global market must not be viewed in messianic terms. It functions properly when it draws on virtues and worldviews that it cannot generate on its own. It fails us when we look to it to solve all of our needs. We need to resist its lure when it makes promises beyond its capacity to fulfill. Then it does become a false gospel. And it also fails us when it withholds its benefits from those who are genuinely needy. What we Christians need to be thinking much about these days is how the free market system can be undergirded by the promises and hopes—including the yearning for justice— that can only be met by the true Gospel. Mouw’s Musings

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