How to waste your Churches Missions Budget.

I'm a Pastor and a Missionary. Before either of these, I was a Church member and concerned about how Gods money was being spent and how many souls were or were not being saved. If these things concern you and your Church then please read on.


Start By:

• Praying and asking the Lord for wisdom in this area.

You Need:

• Sincerity
• Prayer
• Honesty before God

A church I am familiar with recently sent a tour bus with over 50 workers to another city for "evangelism" (3-4 hour trip). Once there the church folks occupied 25 hotel rooms for two days. Their Evangelism trip was entirely focused on handing out food and charities, playing games with the children and saying no to drugs. This last thing was the only part of the trip that had any eternal merit to the listeners... Here is why. And here is how I came to find out about the Churches weekend fiasco.

Someone during the planning faze of this trip learned of an unabated Drug problem in the town and asked if anyone knew of a performer who dealt with that... This just happened to result in a phone call to my Brother in Law "David" an evangelist who does "Say No To Drug" campaigns.Now there is a difference between doing a show for Evangelism and a show about drugs. The one focuses on people’s problems and the other focuses on Salvation issues.

David gave his show, Prepared the crowd for the invitation and then turned the crowd over to the Pastor...Who in turn said Goodnight.

Now David is a good Christian.. and he is a great follower and helper. He is used to helping churches in any capacity in which they have need. But he is not one who would step on pastors toes.Before the weekend was over David salvaged some of the situation by having a "street evangelism" nearby and invited the people to go there.He then did the entire service himself from the singing to the preaching, invitation and eventually the prayers for folks who wanted to receive Christ into their lives.

Understand the Problem...Many people today (even Pastors) know that the church is suppose to evangelize... But they have no idea how to do it.They know the church is suppose to be missions oriented... But they don't know how to do that either.They know that they are suppose to give an invitation... But are unsure what they are inviting people to do?

I Titled this article "How to waste your Churches Missions budget"So let me say something about that...Here is how:

• 1) Hire a pastor who is not a soul winner.
• 2) Go soul winning but don't give the Gospel
• 3) Send your youth on "free" Vacations to exotic locations with little or no responsible missions agency overseers.
• 4) Hire a Rock and Roll band to play for the youth...
• 5) Spend 350,000 on a big name "Christian Entertainer" in a cathedral to "Praise" (while Real Missionaries and their families are living hand to mouth with little or no support)
• 6) Forget that the money in your Missions fund was given to support Missionaries.
• 7) Forget that God himself will hold You, Your Pastor, and everyone involved in this mess responsible.
  
  What to do next?
  Repent
  Remember your First Love
  Remember Jesus!!! And Remember what he sent you to do???
  If you don't know how to soul win... If you don't know how or where to learn... ASK!!!
  Its Past Midnight and the Lord is returning SOON!!!
  Are you going to be ready???
  Is your Lamp going to be Lit and Shining???
  OR Are you about out of oil?
  Jesus is returning soon....
  Hey Sleeping Beauty... WAKE UP!!! Trim your Lamp... Where is your oil???

Will Smith