Let's be accountable
As we make and approve church budgets accross America it is prudent that we look carefully and critically at how much money is designated for the already reached often at the expense of the purposes of the Great Commission to make disciples who make disciples.
Let's try an experiment in two venues for your church: First, multiply the number of conversions by the entire budget for 2006. How much does it cost to make a disciple in your church? Secondly, how much money in your budget is designated for widows, orphans, and the poor? How much money is designated for local, U.S.Ministries and foreign missions? How much of your budget is for staff, buildings and the expenses of the buildings? Include building projects for the real revelation.
Answer this question: Do you think God is pleased with your budget priorities in light of the purposes of the Great Commission and the mandate to make disciples who make disciples for all of us. Would Jesus do what your church is doing and does your budget reflect something Jesus would go along with?
Can you risk giving me feedback? Can you stretch to see what your 2006 budget giving and 2007 priorities reveal about our work and the real mission Jesus lived and passed on to every believer.
We must not remain silent as we see revealing truth. For some, praise God you will be pleased. If so, tell us about it. If not, tell us about it.
Any courageous people like Joshua present?
posted by Bob Carder @ 5:31 PM
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3 Comments:
Lunch, anyone?
If you want to really tick off your finance team and have more productive evangelism, recruitement, accountability, and more - tap into what the corporate world already knows and what Jesus knew - break bread with people.
I've pulled strangers over to take them to lunch and would begin a discipleship relationship time and again.
At one time, over half the people in my church I had the honor to bring thru lavish outreaches? No - breaking bread.
If you want to reach single moms, you can tell her about Jesus - but feed her children and you've got her attention.
Since when do we have to bring people to the church to be ministered to?
Did Jesus require people to come to the temple to be ministered to? No!
I believe the only reason why we have to have our churches stamp on outreaches is Pride and Money.
No, we can't just feed people unless they come and place membership. We can't secretly give a cup of cold water to a child in Jesus name unless our church logo is on it! (I'm being funny here - not). We can't take groceries to a needy family unless we humiliate them, make them stand in the doorway and sing a song as we video tape our church handing these poor heathen a bag of groceries. This is wrong.
Jesus said to not let our right hand know what our left hand is doing.
Let's be agents of change. Now that I'm operating behind the scenes it's more fulfilling and more impacting than my last 25 years of ministry.
"When you do your works before man you have already received your reward." I want my reward to come from the King. How about you?
Firebrand, finally someone posted. I'm so pleased by your heart and Great-Commissional actions.
I would love to speak with you about Great-Commissional ministry and launching a disciple-making missional ministry if God is calling and/or if there is interest.
You nailed it and thankyou for contributing to this blog post and seizing the discipling moments for those who read the post and comments.
You blessed me this morning. Thanks!
Bob,
Yes, I'm interested!
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