*Updates on church member giving and membership trends through 2004.
*A new survey of 2003 and 2004 Overseas Missions support in 34 denominations.
*Calculations of the cents per day cost per church member to address global evangelization and impacting global need.
*A calculation of Roman Catholic potential giving in eight archdioceses.
*An analysis of a proposal by the National Council of the Churches of Christ U.S.A. to increase giving by 0.7% for global need as applied to The United Methodist Church.
*The effects of the unified budget in one denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention.
*A discussion of why and how much Americans give.
*A general discussion of the question, "Will We Will?"
-An exploration of traditional and meta-denominations.
-The dynamics of disintermediation and reintermediation between denominations and congregations.
-The "institutional enslavement of overseas missions" by denominational use of the unified budget.
-The choice before congregations between serving as global mission outreach and discipleship centers, or succumbing to Mammonism and becoming irrelevant to the work of the kingdom of God.
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Any study like this will have limitations set by the data available. The authors do a good job with what is available to present objective, quantitative analysis first and then view that through a subjective filter of christian generosity and ministry. It's very eye-opening and very useful if you are doing reports or having conversations and need statistics to support a point you're making, influence people. Also, will challenge you to examine your own heart and giving.
Furthermore, I live in the same town in which this couple's ministry exists and it provides a good service giving out food and clothing at its store "Free in Jesus' name" as well as sending out teams each weekend to fix homes and stuff like that free as well. So they are walking the walk as well.
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