A Just Weight Is His Delight
What money is, how it was broken, and why an honest ledger matters, through history and through Scripture.
“A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.” Proverbs 11:1 (KJV)
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Who it's for
Church small groups and Sunday school classes, and anyone who has wondered what the Bible says about money beyond “don't love it.” Nobody needs to know anything about Bitcoin or computers. The class doesn't touch a computer until week seven, and even then only to look.
Each session runs 45 to 60 minutes and has an opening hook, a scripture anchor, a story to tell, a show-and-tell prop, and discussion questions.
What you'll get
The eight-week outline
Every session's hook, scripture, story, prop and discussion questions, a plain-English glossary (ephah, dross, fiat and the rest), and a reading shelf. Read it online now, no email needed.
Leader's guides for Weeks 1 and 2, by email
Timed 60-minute run sheets with things to say. Week 1 has a barter game with printable trade cards and the stone money of Yap; Week 2 has a scale demonstration that catches a crooked merchant, and reading cards for the scripture walk.
The eight weeks
- What Is Money?The problem money solves, and the strange things that have been money
- Just Weights and MeasuresWhat Scripture actually says about money
- Hard Money Wins. Every Time.Seashells, Rome, and why gold lasted 5,000 years
- The Creature: Fiat and the Federal ReserveHow money by decree took over the world
- Inflation: The Hidden TaxWages in a bag with holes, and who wins when money is printed
- Sound Money, Patient PeopleWhat the money we hold does to the people we become
- Enter BitcoinAn honest ledger no one can tip, explained with no technology background
- Objections, Discernment & StewardshipThe hard questions, and what faithfulness looks like here
All eight weeks are in the outline. Weeks 1 and 2 have full leader's guides now; the guides for Weeks 3 through 8 are being written.
Tools for the class
Free to use, on a phone during class or on a screen at the front of the room. No sign-in.
What has your dollar lost?
Pick a year and an amount and see what inflation did to it since, next to the same money held in gold or silver. Or look ahead: what 3% a year does in five years.
Week 7Fingerprint a verse
Change one letter of Proverbs 11:1 and watch its fingerprint change, then try to quietly edit a ledger.
Week 7Bitcoin's supply clock
How many of the 21 million bitcoin exist today, and when the next halving comes. Live from the network.
Every weekWords and verses
The study's plain-English glossary and the King James text of every verse it uses, searchable by week.
The books behind it
The study draws on these, roughly in the order a curious class member should meet them. Nobody needs to buy any of them to take part.
Thank God for Bitcoin
Jimmy Song and others (2020)
The one book written for exactly this audience: how money was made, corrupted and can be redeemed, argued from Scripture. Short, and easy to give.
The Bible and Bitcoin
Alin Armstrong (2023)
A short theological case that Scripture calls for just, honest money, with time and energy in view. It ends with a study guide for small groups.
The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous (2018)
The backbone of the study: the history of money, what makes it hard, time preference, then Bitcoin. Openly opinionated in its later chapters.
The Creature from Jekyll Island
G. Edward Griffin (1994)
The story behind week four, the Federal Reserve's founding. The 1910 meeting is well documented; read the author's larger claims with care.
America's Bank
Roger Lowenstein (2015)
A mainstream historian on the same events. It confirms the Jekyll Island meeting and disputes what it meant, so read it alongside Griffin.
When Money Dies
Adam Fergusson (1975)
Germany's 1923 hyperinflation as ordinary families lived it. One chapter read aloud does more than any chart.
Broken Money
Lyn Alden (2023)
A calm, recent all-in-one on why the money system works the way it does, and how banking actually operates.
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Not financial advice
This is a Bible study about what money is. Nobody in it is told to buy anything. The backbone is Saifedean Ammous's The Bitcoin Standard, with Scripture anchoring every session, and the outline says plainly where a source overreaches.