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November 4, 2008
Empty Tomb report on giving troubling for Southern Baptists
What we do is more important than we say.
So what are we "telling" the world through our church giving behavior.
- Americans spent nearly twice as much on first-day sales of the video game "Grand Theft Auto IV" as the Southern Baptist Convention and its International Mission Board would need to share the gospel with all the world's unreached people groups by 2010, according to a new report on church giving.
- Empty tomb estimated it would cost about $11 per Southern Baptist to fund those extra missionaries. Instead, the denomination's 2008 goal of $170 million to support existing missionaries is the equivalent of asking each Southern Baptist to donate just 31 cents more than last year.
- "The total portion of per capita income given to churches in 2006 was lower (in 2006) than in the worst year of the Great Depression," the authors found.
Read Report calls US church giving 'lukewarm'.
Posted by bstroup at November 4, 2008 12:59 PM
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