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MONEY in the CHURCH
"Today Christians spend more money on dog food than missions."
- Leonard Ravenhill
"I am dismayed by the contracts required by some contemporary
musical groups. To perform a concert at your church, the stated
fee will be so much (in either four or five figures) plus round trip
airfare--often first class, not coach. Every detail of the accommo-
dations is spelled out, down to "sushi for twenty persons" waiting
at the hotel, in one case. All this is done so that the group can
stand before an inner-city audience and exhort the people to
"just trust the Lord for all your needs."
- Jim Cymbala
"Nothing I am sure has such a tendency to quench the fire of
religion as the possession of money."
- J. C. Ryle
"You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can
have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that
doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart."
- Adrian Rogers
"Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a
Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just
humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give."
- David Livingstone
"It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with
money we don't have to impress people we don't like."
- Adrian Rogers
"Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money.
One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that
subject. Scripture offers about five hundred verses on prayer,
fewer than five hundred on faith, and over two thousand on
money. The believer's attitude toward money and possessions
is determinative." - John MacArthur
"Today Christians spend more money on dog food than missions."
- Leonard Ravenhill
"I am dismayed by the contracts required by some contemporary
musical groups. To perform a concert at your church, the stated
fee will be so much (in either four or five figures) plus round trip
airfare--often first class, not coach. Every detail of the accommo-
dations is spelled out, down to "sushi for twenty persons" waiting
at the hotel, in one case. All this is done so that the group can
stand before an inner-city audience and exhort the people to
"just trust the Lord for all your needs."
- Jim Cymbala
"Nothing I am sure has such a tendency to quench the fire of
religion as the possession of money."
- J. C. Ryle
"You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can
have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that
doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart."
- Adrian Rogers
"Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a
Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just
humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give."
- David Livingstone
"It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with
money we don't have to impress people we don't like."
- Adrian Rogers
"Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money.
One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that
subject. Scripture offers about five hundred verses on prayer,
fewer than five hundred on faith, and over two thousand on
money. The believer's attitude toward money and possessions
is determinative." - John MacArthur