Following up on Thinking about money… again, I recalled some research by Wayne Allen on the relationship between financial subsidies and the growth of an indigenous church in Indonesia. Wayne discovered that the impact of foreign subsidies for national church workers resulted in the decline or plateau of the national church. Wayne Allen provided three [...]
Tag Archives: Money and movements
I’ve never been the same….
3 June, 2005 – 10:06 PM
I’ve never been the same since I read this quote from Roland Allen: The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its element is a very simple thing. It asks for no elaborate organisation, no large finances, no great numbers of paid missionaries. In its beginning it may be the work of one man, and [...]
Thinking about money. . . again
3 June, 2005 – 10:14 AM
Thinking about money. . . again. Met with a denominational leader for coffee the other day. He’s wrestling with the challenge of planting churches. In his system they fund plants centrally. So over just a few years we’re talking tens of thousands of dollars. If the plant doesn’t prosper they support it financially. Over a [...]
Movements and Money
10 May, 2005 – 1:35 PM
“Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore, I do not see how it is possible, in the nature of things, for any revival of religion to continue long. For religion must necessarily produce both industry and frugality and these cannot but produce riches. But as riches increase, [...]
Spontaneous Expansion
12 April, 2005 – 7:37 PM
The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its element is a very simple thing. It asks for no elaborate organisation, no large finances, no great numbers of paid missionaries. In its beginning it may be the work of one man and that a man neither learned in the things of this world, nor rich [...]
