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It is not so much a book centered relationship we call Christianity as it is a relationship centered book we call the Bible. (This is not to say that what we hear in the context of that relationship doesn’t have to square with what we find in the Bible. It does. This along with the feedback of fellowship is an important part of how we can keep our relationship with God on track.)
An interactive relationship with God is to be contrasted to a transactive relationship. In an interactive relationship we want to get to know the other better in order to better love and serve that one. We also want to deliberately make ourselves known to the other, inviting the other to know us better also. A transactive relationship on the other hand is more business-like. We want to see how the other can benefit us, not primarily how we might benefit the other, but what we can obtain or extract from the relationship. They may benefit too and often do, but that is almost incidental to the main purpose. There needs to be some evidence that one has prospered by virtue of the time and resources invested.
Prosperity, though, is not necessarily a reward for righteousness any more than poverty is necessarily a punishment for the lack of it. Neither are virtues in themselves. In fact, either can prove to be a curse in the lives of those affected by them.
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