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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...

First, I hope to show you how a church’s budget reveals its true philosophy of ministry. A philosophy of ministry—the guiding principles that determine a church’s priorities and decisions—is tightly tethered to its budget. You cannot protect or change your philosophy of ministry unless you understand the budget’s role in shaping it. Second, we’ll look at how to evaluate a budget against the standard of Scripture. Very often, we assume the Bible has little to say about the infrastructure of churches,
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