Emphasis Preaching Journal
Jesus' advice to the rich...
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Jesus' advice to the rich young man focused on the disastrous consequences of substituting love of self, possessions, and power for true love of God. Tragically, the very leadership of the Christian Church has stumbled in the same way. A dramatic illustration comes in the life of Pope Leo X, the leader of the Western Christian Church at the moment when Martin Luther hammered his sentences for debate on the Wittenberg, Germany, church door.