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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...

His purpose for your church’s budget is that in your church’s faithfulness—that is, in your risk-taking obedience—you show off and reveal how amazing he is. That’s a tall order, I realize. But a church budget can do this in at least three ways: 1. As we give money to the church, our faithfulness as individuals proclaims God as better than our money and his command to give as more delightful than our desire to get. 2. As you invest your church’s money in God’s work, your congregation deliberates about
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