At present, the average Christian gives to the church at the exact percentage non-believers give to charities—just fewer than three percent.

As Jesus plainly said, “You cannot serve both God and money,” and thus every aspect of our faith, fears, plans, and dreams will be challenged at this basic level.

If none of us got paid, God would still expect us to lead and serve the world.

want you to keep these three primary leverage points in view. If you maximize all three of them, you will live the best life possible. They are business for mission, family on mission, and counter-culture mission.

The church must be viewed as the people of God, not the institution.

Making disciples is easier and cheaper than keeping consumer Christians happy.

The real story of the tithe is that God’s people consolidated their personal giving and only about ten percent was raked off the top for the religious leaders. The rest was distributed to the poor. The tithe and its effects on the world were awesome. It displayed God’s heart for the people and kept a reasonable balance for those who made some porti

You cannot serve both God and money

Your secular work is the soil in which God plants his sacred kingdom work. Therefore your work is not a hindrance to what God is doing, but instead a significant part of what he is doing.