The Grip of Money: Why Money and Work Still Master Christians

What if money and work could bring you closer to God instead of slowly pulling you away from him?Most Christians want to honour God with the way they live. That includes how we earn, spend, save, work, rest, give and decide about the future.But money and work take up so much of life that they can become more important than we realise.There is plenty of advice about earning more, spending better, investing wisely and building a career. Christians need to ask a deeper question: is the way you use money and the way you work helping you follow Jesus more closely?The Grip of Money is about seeing money and work as part of discipleship. It is not a budgeting system, an investment guide or a prosperity message. It is a biblical framework for understanding what money and work are for, so they become tools for following God rather than things that quietly take his place. Across thirteen chapters it covers money, work, rest, spending, debt, housing, investing, generosity and identity as parts of one Christian life.James Kim writes as a pastor and as someone who has spent two decades in business. He has planted a church, worked six years without a pastoral salary, made his own mistakes with money and ambition, and wrestled with how faith should shape ordinary financial decisions.Because the goal is not simply to make less, want less or own less.The goal is freedom.Freedom to make money without sacrificing your faith.Freedom to work hard without making work your identity.Freedom to build wealth without needing wealth to make you feel secure.Freedom to enjoy what God gives you without being owned by it.And freedom to make decisions based not only on what makes financial sense, but on where God might be leading you.Freedom, in the end, for Jesus to become more, not less, Lord of your life.The Grip of Money is for Christians entering adult life, for those already deep into work and financial responsibility, and for anyone who senses that money and work may be shaping them more than they want.Earn. Work. Spend. Save. Invest. Give. Rest.But let all of it lead you closer to Jesus.The Grip of Money is the first book in The Grip Series, exploring the forces that quietly shape Christian life and how to put them back in their proper place.