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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...

Remember that God often works through your limitations. How often have you complained about the limitations of your church’s budget? I certainly have. “If these people would just give an extra 20 percent, look at how much we could do!” “If the congregation would just give an extra $100,000, we wouldn’t lose our building.” Why would a sovereign God allow those limitations? Think of how often in Scripture it is the limitations that reveal the glory of God. Consider Gideon’s tiny army, David’s simple