The Western Church and Global Missions Giving: A Case for Discernment

God is a missionary. A missionary is someone sent by God with the goal of redeeming the lost. The Father sent both the Son and Spirit to that major purpose. The Father modeled this when He sought out Adam and Eve after they sinned (Gen. 3:9). God chose Israel not to enjoy unique blessings, but to be a light to the Gentiles (Is. 42:6; 49:6). Jesus went first to the lost of Israel (Matt. 15:24), in deference to the chosen, but trained and commanded His disciples to go into all the world with the gospel upon His death (Matt. 28:18-20). “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost." (Luke 19:10, NIV). As the Father sent Jesus on that mission, Jesus now sends us to the remotest places—jungles, villages, slums, apartments and trailer parks, cities, and to gated-communities (John 20:21). So important is reconciling the lost that Christ was slain from the foundation of the world (Rev. 13:8).

Clergy can have complex finances and faced with special problems. RMNi looks at many of these issues in a two-part series on Clergy Finances.

Part 1

Part 2

(Note these both are in PDF format and require Adobe Reader.)