Randy Alcorn addresses the question, "Do people sometimes disguise hoarding as investing?"
How Can I Help Someone I Love Who Struggles with Hoarding?
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I have a question regarding a dear Christian friend who struggles with hoarding—not in the sense of wanting to acquire wealth and build barns, but more in the sense of holding onto everything because they think there might be a future purpose to that object, and have to buy it again would waste God’s money.