Two can play this game

I’ve heard pastors say each of these things during sermons in church. They want each person in the congregation to slowly and incrementally give up all their secular interests and activities and increasingly devote more and more of their time and money to the church. The model is the early 1st century Christians who supposedly gave up all of their possessions to follow the teachings of Jesus. Of course the present day church wants us all to keep our day jobs so we will continue to make money to give to the church.