"Give all your possessions to the poor."
This, I believe, would be a mistake. I wonder how many people take it literally.
It certainly is not a very popular teaching, if taken literally.
If one does not do this and nevertheless feels guilty about it, that would be tragic.
Money makes the world go round, like it or not, and in so far as a Christian sees money as evil, that person would be sadly mistaken. I am not saying that greed is always a good thing, but I do thiink that we should have a healthy relationship to it.
In 1 Timothy, Paul says that the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil; he does not say that money itself is the root of all evil, as he is often misquoted. When Jesus told the rich man to give all his possessions to the poor, He was not so much teaching it as doctrine as he was testing the man's faith and how far he would go to follow Him.
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