Product Description
*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.
