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Budgeting for a Healthy Church: Aligning Finances with Biblical Priorities for Ministry is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many pastors conceive of the church budget as primarily a financial tool, but in fact it is primarily a pastoral tool. A church's philosophy of ministry is locked into its budget, and so the budget will either stifle or accelerate any attempts to move a congregation toward a biblical model of church health. As such, the church budget is a far more potent pastoral tool than many church leaders...

a church budget is a spiritual tool with spiritual aims. A church budget has spiritual value when we get it right and does spiritual harm when we get it wrong. As a result, seeing a church’s budget merely, or even primarily, as a financial tool grossly underestimates what it is. A wealthy gentleman asked my church’s senior pastor to lunch shortly after he began his ministry. He began the meeting with an intriguing proposition. “I’ll make the same deal with you as I did with the previous pastors:
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