I was thinking about our economy, and something my high school headmaster told us came to mind. He said that Christianity was able to have such healthy growth in ancient Rome because of their lifestyle. Christians tended the sick, pagans died for lack of care. Christians kept their girl children, pagans ran out of females.
With a little bit of searching, I managed to find this pdf that says all this, though I don’t know if this is exactly what my headmaster was referencing.
What I took from that is: Christians fare well in crises.
So, in relation to our current economic situation, this may be another time when Christians can thrive. Christians (the ones I know anyway) desire to live simply and in poverty, the World desires riches and honors. Christians rely on the Lord, the World is paralyzed by fear when its own methods are insufficient.
