{
  "id": "MTOM-0101",
  "title": "Career Ambition Excused as Stewardship",
  "slug": "career-ambition-excused-as-stewardship",
  "url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/modern-traditions-of-men/career-ambition-excused-as-stewardship/",
  "category": "Holiness and Obedience",
  "severity": 2,
  "severity_label": "Level 2 - Dangerous distortion",
  "danger_type": "ambition_baptized_as_faithfulness",
  "status": "full_depth_wave3_draft",
  "summary": "Work can honour God, but ambition becomes corrupt when career success is baptized as stewardship while kingdom obedience is pushed aside.",
  "primary_scriptures": [
    "Matt 6:24-34",
    "Col 3:23-24",
    "1 Tim 6:6-10",
    "Jas 4:13-17",
    "Prov 16:3"
  ],
  "key_terms": "oikonomia [stewardship]; epithymia [desire, craving]; kyrios [Lord]; kauchesis [boasting]",
  "related_topics": [
    "middle-class-comfort-treated-as-normal-christianity",
    "prayerlessness-hidden-under-productivity",
    "sabbath-and-rest-principles-ignored-through-productivity-idolatry",
    "covetousness-hidden-under-lifestyle-aspiration"
  ],
  "wave": "Wave 3 - Salvation and Holiness Distortions",
  "translation_tooltips": "NET Bible local hover tooltips generated from local site data",
  "generated": "2026-06-12T15:29:20.175989+00:00"
}