A Study on the Christian’s Ethos in Recession

This study is aiming at role of church to educate churches' members about economic ethics in current recession based on the bible. For fulfilling this purpose, the economic crises in the bible were firstly reviewed. Then biblical economic ethic in recession was arranged and the role of church to educate Christians was concluded. Economic adversity is summarizes in two respects. One is a view of God; God sometime gives hard situation a man to train him or her in the process of accomplishing his will. Even though all of things in the world are proceeding by God’s will, especially there were many cases in the process that is planning by sovereign will. That was the story that patriarchs in Old Testament were faced. The other one is resulted from sin. Most of events of bible were occurred by sin opposed God’s will. The economic problems are confronting all the people as well as Christians. The study aims to supply Christians with some insights in this hard time. Thus, we suggested some criteria of ethos such as (1) Recognition of God's sovereignty, (2) Consciousness of calling, (3) Earning honest, (4) Consideration of socially vulnerable, (5) Warning against the poor. It is needed for Christian to concentrate in doing these virtues. Though Christian fulfills this ethos under the hard time, God made a firm promise to solve the economic adversity.