This program will help you undo financial bondage.
Your church probably has an average $50,000 gross household income and should receive a total annual tithe equal to or greater than this: 100 families giving $500,000 or 500 families giving $2,500,000 or 1000 families giving $5,000,000 or 3000 families giving $15,000,000. However, most church congregations don’t give at that level because the ground that the seed (Word) is being sown into (the hearts of the people listening) is not good ground as described in the parable of the sower.
It’s amazing that the parable says 75 percent of people the gospel is sown into are not good ground because they only let the Word penetrate their hearts for a moment or because the cares of this world (direct pursuit of riches instead of the goals of Jesus Christ) quickly crowded out the Word they previously accepted. They couldn't be built up in the Faith because they chose to forsake regular fellowship with believers that truly seek God's will. So, the devil ultimately devoured them. They allowed him to turn them away from God's will.
Only 25 percent were identified as being sown in good ground (hearts that prepared for growth though employing Christ-like discipline). I hope you fall into this category, not just for salvation and eternal life sake, but that you might be fruitful on earth bringing forth 30, 60, and 100 fold returns for the kingdom of God and the sake of lost souls who need Jesus Christ. If you are not currently in this category, then move into it. It’s an exercise of your will motivated by your love for Jesus Christ that allows His work of reconciliation to take place in your life. You then become useful in helping others be reconciled to Him.
I don’t believe that this 75% to 25% relationship is set in stone. I believe it identifies a floor that the church works from because of the devil’s busywork, yet it presents us with a challenge that we can overcome by feeding the congregation biblical principles and showing the saints how to forsake principles constantly aired in the world that do not line up with biblical principles. Such regular teaching will provide believers with the knowledge and understanding they need to help them overcome the hardness of heart, thorns, and bad relationships that brought them to the place of spiritual and/or natural poverty that led them to forsake tithing and ultimately the relationship that God wanted to have with them.
Leaders who want to help members undo financial bondage, prosper greatly, and greatly increase church revenues for the purpose of fulfilling the great commission and edifying believers must teach church members the complete array of godly financial disciplines spoken of in scripture. These disciplines or principles are spending time in God’s presence through worship, daily prayer and thanksgiving, weekly fellowship with the church, volunteering to work with other believers in weekly ministry and outreach to unbelievers, tithing, free-will offering, giving as God speaks specific amounts to you personally, proper outlook toward work, paying taxes, saving and investing, staying out of and eliminating debt, and spending less than you make.
Please pray for this ministry and email any questions. May God bless you richly as you follow His plan!!!
Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Matthew 13:3-8, John 8:32, Romans 10:17, 2Timothy 2:2, 3:16-17
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