Holding the Rope
Not everybody makes a lot of money. But as it is, the Lord has commanded us to participate in missions and spreading the Gospel, and as such, it is our obligation to give towards international missions and local church planting ventures. God has provided for all our needs - so if you're struggling with how you can give towards missions and church planting on a low budget, here's a few ideas:
1) Fast one meal a week - put that $5 you would have used on McD's towards missions or a church planter. At the end of the year, that's $260 towards Kingdom expansion & growth that would have gone towards waist line expansion and growth.
2) Get rid of TV - use the money you would use towards a cable bill and buy some wholesome dvd's, rabbit ears, and the rest of it towards a missionary, agency, or church planter or agency. That would be hundreds to possibly over a thousand dollars.
3) Get rid of your home phone & get along with just the cell phone - most of us spend nearly or over $30 a month for a home phone line that may get used just 0 - 2 times a month. At the least, this would be over $1500, that would usually be going towards a luxury of having an extra line.
4) Turn your junk into treasure - take some of your rust-gathering material wealth, hold a garage sell, or get together with a Sunday school class and all put your excess junk or material overload and sale it, giving the proceeds towards missions and church planting.
5) Pray. Invest in a few candles, some brief mission biographies, articles, or updates, take the names of missionaries from your churches, gather with your family or even friends, & shut off the lights for an evening - turn off the heat, sleep on the floor under blankets, holding Bible reading and prayer, and softly sing together, to put yourself in the mindset of indigenous missionaries who backpack into the jungles, to villages, in the harshest conditions, threatened by weather, persecution, and harsh enviornment.
1) Fast one meal a week - put that $5 you would have used on McD's towards missions or a church planter. At the end of the year, that's $260 towards Kingdom expansion & growth that would have gone towards waist line expansion and growth.
2) Get rid of TV - use the money you would use towards a cable bill and buy some wholesome dvd's, rabbit ears, and the rest of it towards a missionary, agency, or church planter or agency. That would be hundreds to possibly over a thousand dollars.
3) Get rid of your home phone & get along with just the cell phone - most of us spend nearly or over $30 a month for a home phone line that may get used just 0 - 2 times a month. At the least, this would be over $1500, that would usually be going towards a luxury of having an extra line.
4) Turn your junk into treasure - take some of your rust-gathering material wealth, hold a garage sell, or get together with a Sunday school class and all put your excess junk or material overload and sale it, giving the proceeds towards missions and church planting.
5) Pray. Invest in a few candles, some brief mission biographies, articles, or updates, take the names of missionaries from your churches, gather with your family or even friends, & shut off the lights for an evening - turn off the heat, sleep on the floor under blankets, holding Bible reading and prayer, and softly sing together, to put yourself in the mindset of indigenous missionaries who backpack into the jungles, to villages, in the harshest conditions, threatened by weather, persecution, and harsh enviornment.
