A Christian Perspective on the Insurance Industry

(Huge disclaimer: I am a complete novice to this line of work, I started interning with Wunderite without even a basic understanding of what and why insurance agents do what they do, and perhaps only after working with Wunderite for the past three months can I say that I have that “basic understanding”). The insurance industry is a strange animal. At it’s most basic level it represents a way for individuals or businesses to “insure” their amassed material possessions. To protect what wealth they have acquired from adverse scenarios and forces with more wealth.

I want to think a little about how the protection of material possession interacts with what the Bible has to say about money and prosperity. This theme will draw heavily from Dr. Enoch Hill’s paper submitted for the Center for Faith and Innovation titled Can Money Buy Happiness?