Who Is Robbing God?
Christianity Today reported the results of a study of church
budgets. The study shows that the average-size budget of the
churches surveyed is $292,790. Here's how their annual expenses are
allocated:
43 percent for staff salaries
20 percent for facilities (rent, mortgage, utilities, maintenance)
16 percent for missions
9 percent for church programs
6 percent for administration and supplies
3 percent for denominational fees
3 percent other
Staff salaries,
facilities, administrative and denominational fees combine for an
average 72% of the total budget. Almost three quarters spent for
maintenance of systems and practices not even mentioned in the New
Testament.
Another study by McGraw Hill Dodge Market Reports shows that churches spent an
estimated $4.4 billion dollars in 2008 on building or
remodeling facilities. This is a huge amount of money to spend on
structures which have no scriptural foundation and will in fact
melt with fervent heat at the second coming of Christ.
The Bottom Line: The Institutionalized Church spends huge amounts of
God’s resources to support a system that is actually counter to what
He laid out in scripture.
And so we must ask...... Who is Robbing God?
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