Nominating Jesus for king means being willing to buy in to his economic policies, and the policies he asks us to live by do stand in stark contrast to the policies we’d abide by on our own. In earlier times, Christians had a general consensus that there was an inherent tension between monotheism and materialism—what do our hopes and our spending habits say about which side we lean toward? Isaiah 55.1-3; Malachi 3.6-12; Romans 10.11-13; Matthew 6.19-24, 31-33