Financing and FundRaising

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Financing and Fund-Raising

• Gods work done in Gods way will never lack
  Gods supply.
• Hudson Taylor

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• Scott Rodin
• Through Christ, we have been saved from the sin
  that prohibits joyful giving in Christ, we are
  set free from sinful motivations and desires,
  allowing us to pour forth generously. Thus, His
  rule extends over every aspect of our lives. In
  light of Gods involvement in and sovereignty
  over any endeavor we undertake

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• fund-raising should rely on the Holy Spirits
  power to prompt giving, rather than using
  manipulative techniques that gauge success by
  results rather than by the relational aspect of
  the person.
• R. Scott Rodin, Stewards in the Kingdom A
  Theology of Life in All Its Fullness

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Should Needs Be Made Known?

• We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers,
  about the hardships we suffered in the province
  of Asiaas you help us by your prayers. Then many
  will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious
  favor granted us in answer to the prayers of
  many. 2 Corinthians 18

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• I rejoice greatly in the Lord that at last you
  have renewed your concern for me. Indeed, you
  have been concerned, but you had no opportunity
  to show it. I am not saying this because I am in
  need, for I have learned to be content whatever
  the circumstances.

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• Philippians 4
• I know what it is to be in need, and I know
  what it is to have plenty. I have learned the
  secret of being content in any and every
  situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether
  living in plenty or in want. I can do everything
  through him who gives me strength.

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• Yet it was good of you to share in my
  troubles. Moreover, as you Philippians know, in
  the early days of your acquaintance with the
  gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not one
  church shared with me in the matter of giving and
  receiving, except you only for even when I was
  in Thessalonica, you sent me aid again and again
  when I was in need. Phil. 410-19

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• Not that I am looking for a gift, but I am
  looking for what may be credited to your account.
  I have received full payment and even more I am
  amply supplied, now that I have received from
  Epaphroditus the gifts you sent. They are a
  fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice,
  pleasing to God. And in light of your giving
  lifestyle my God will meet all your needs
  according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
  Phil. 410-19

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Support RaisingGeorge Müllers Guidelines

• 1. No funds should ever be solicited. No facts or
  figures concerning needs are to be revealed by
  the workers in the orphanage to anyone, except to
  God in prayer.
• 2. No debt should ever be incurred.
• 3. Money contributed for a specific purpose
  should never be used for any other purpose.

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• 4. All accounts should be audited annually by
  professional auditors.
• 5. No ego-pandering by publication of donors
  names with the amount of their gifts each donor
  should be thanked privately.
• 6. No names of prominent or titled persons should
  be sought for the board or to advertise the
  institution.

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• 7. The success of the institution should be
  measured not by the numbers served or by the
  amounts of money taken in, but by Gods blessing
  on the work, which is expected to be in
  proportion to the time spent in prayer.

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Recognition, Gifts and Premiums as Fund-Raising
Tools

• So when you give to the needy, do not announce
  it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the
  synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by
  men. I tell you the truth, they have received
  their reward in full.
• Matthew 62

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Modern Christian Fund-Raising

• Larry Eskridge and Mark A. Noll
• In the end, evangelical entrepreneurs, and
  their constituenciesconvince themselves that the
  successes of the organization are a sign of Gods
  approval, and that any decline of the
  organization would mean a setback to Gods work
  in the world.

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• So they spend their time and energies building
  and growing their organizations. Growth requires
  more money more money means more ministry.
• In the worst cases, means and ends become
  reversed, and entrepreneurs and administrators do
  ministry in order to grow.

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• In the best cases, more ministry means more
  people who become newly aware of the great gift
  God has given them, and who then, in gratitude,
  reach into their own pockets so that others might
  also know.
• Larry Eskridge and Mark A. Noll, ed.,
• More Money, More MinistryMoney and Evangelicals
  inRecent North American History

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• Richard Stearns
• Fundraising Letters The decisions to use
  words like urgent to underline key phrases in an
  appeal letter, or to include a painful photograph
  of a child in need can have life and death
  consequences. An appeal that raises an additional
  10,000 can feed 100 children for five months or
  inoculate 500 children against the five deadly

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• childhood diseases.These are the true ethical
  consequences of the debate over fund-raising
  language and tactics. Critical needs justify
  urgent appeals as long as those appeals are
  honest and fully accurate. If a building is on
  fire, one does not send a subtle memo to alert
  the occupants one pulls the fire alarm.
• Richard Stearns,President of World Vision U.S.

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• 1. Eternal Perspective Ministries belongs to
  Jesus Christ. EPM staff are privileged to be his
  servants (1 Cor. 36-7). EPM will exist only as
  long as God wants it to. If it becomes evident
  that His purpose for EPM is finished, we will
  close our doors. The sun does not rise or set on
  this ministry. It is simply a tool at Gods
  disposal (2 Tim. 221), for Him to use asand as
  long ashe chooses.
• Original Statement of Purpose

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Foundations and Donors

• Having money to give away and the power to
  decide to whom to give it is intoxicating, and
  foundations can be irritating examples of the
  narcissism of the righteous. We all need to be
  aware of some of the darker sides of human views
  of money and of giving and receiving, if we are
  to keep from exploiting the power position of the
  donor or the dependent position of the seeker.
  Dr. Roy Menninger

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• A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a
  flattering mouth works ruin.
• Proverbs 2628
• He who rebukes a man will in the end gain more
  favor than he who has a flattering tongue.
• Proverbs 2823

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• Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in
  all things grow up into him who is the Head, that
  is, Christ.
• Ephesians 415

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Paid Celebrity Endorsements?

• Jesus saidWhen you give a luncheon or dinner,
  do not invite your friends, brothers or
  relatives, or rich neighbors if you do, they may
  invite you back and so you will be repaid. But
  when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the
  crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be
  blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will
  be repaid at the resur-rection of the righteous.
  Lk 1412-14

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GhostwritingDoctrinal False Advertising by
Christian Colleges
Exorbitant Fees for Christian Speakers and
Musicians
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• Jim Cymbala
• I am dismayed at the contracts required by
  some contemporary Christian 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 airfareoften in first class, not
  coach.

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• Every detail of the accommodations 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,Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

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Questions to Ask Before You Give to Any
Organization
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• 2. Are there things about this ministry that
  make it uniquely worth investing in?
• 3. Have I not only read the literature from this
  ministry, but talked with others who know it
  close up but have no vested interests in it?

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• 6. Do the organizations workers demonstrate a
  sense of unity, camaraderie, and mutual respect?
  (Ask employees, For what reasons have people
  left this organization in the last few years?)

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• 7. Have I talked directly with people at the
  lower levels of this ministry, not just
  executives and PR people? How do they feel about
  the ministry?
• 8. Is this ministry biblically sound and
  Christ-centered? Do people call upon the Lord
  Jesus to ask his guidance and the Holy Spirits
  empowerment to do their work?

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• 9. What kind of character, integrity, purity,
  and humility is demonstrated by the ministry
  leaders?
• 10. What kind of accountability structures (just
  using the word accountability isnt enough) does
  the organization have?

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• 15. What ethics and what view of God and people
  are demonstrated in this organizations
  fund-raising techniques?
• 16. How much money does the organization spend
  on overhead expenses and fund-raising, and how
  much in actual ministry to people?

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• 17. Does this ministry show a clear
  understanding of cross-cultural ministry factors
  and local conditions and how the flow of money
  may affect them?
• 18. Does this organization speak well of others
  and cooperate with them?

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Making Money, Owning Possessions, and Choosing a
Lifestyle
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• C. S. Lewis
• I do not believe one can settle how much we
  ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is
  to give more than we can spare. In other words,
  if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries,
  amusements, etc., is up to the standard common
  among those with the same

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• income as our own, we are probably giving away
  too little.
• If our charities do not at all pinch or
  hamper us, I should say they are too small. There
  ought to be things we should like to do and
  cannot do because our charitable expenditure
  excludes them.
• C. S. Lewis

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• How different our standard is from Christs. We
  ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he
  keeps.
• Andrew Murray

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Gods Way to Earn Money Work

• A sluggard does not plow in season so at
  harvest time he looks but finds nothing (Proverbs
  204).
• If anyone does not provide for his relatives,
  and especially for his immediate family, he has
  denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
• 1 Timothy 58

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• For even when we were with you we gave you this
  rule If a man will not work, he shall not eat.
• 2 Thessalonians 310
• Our people must learn to devote themselves to
  doing what is good, in order that they may
  provide for daily necessities and not live
  unproductive lives.
• Titus 314

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• Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart,
  as working for the Lord, not for men, since you
  know that you will receive an inheritance from
  the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you
  are serving.
• Colossians 323-24

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• Such people we command and urge in the Lord
  Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the bread
  they eat.
• 2 Thessalonians 312
• Balance We dare not forget Scriptures
  repeated emphasis on carrying for the poor.

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Private Ownership of Property

• You shall not steal.
• Exodus 2015
• You shall not covet your neighbors house. You
  shall not covet your neighbors wife, or his
  manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or
  anything that belongs to your neighbor.
• Exodus 2017

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• The land must not be sold permanently, because
  the land is mine and you are but aliens and my
  tenants.
• Leviticus 2523

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Lifestyles in the Gospels

• As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he
  saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net
  into the lake, for they were fishermen. Come,
  follow me, Jesus said, and I will make you
  fishers of men. At once they left their nets and
  followed him.

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• When he had gone a little farther, he saw James
  son of Zebedee and his brother John in a boat,
  preparing their nets. Without delay he called
  them, and they left their father Zebedee in the
  boat with the hired men and followed him.
• Mark 116-20

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• We have left everything to follow you!
• Mark 1028
• Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father
  has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell
  your possessions and give to the poor. Provide
  purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a
  treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted,
  where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.
• Luke 1232-33

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• As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who
  had been demon-possessed begged to go with him.
• Mark 518
• Whose boat?

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• When Jesus saw his mother there, and the
  disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said
  to his mother, Dear woman, here is your son,
  and to the disciple, Here is your mother. From
  that time on, this disciple took her into his
  home.
• John 1926-27

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• So the man went away back to his home and
  began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had
  done for him. And all the people were amazed.
• Mark 520

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• Then Jesus asked them, When I sent you without
  purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?
• Nothing, they answered.
• He said to them, But now if you have a purse,
  take it, and also a bag and if you dont have a
  sword, sell your cloak and buy one.
• Luke 2235-36

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• and is well known for her good deeds, such as
  bringing up children, showing hospitality,
  washing the feet of the saints, helping those in
  trouble and devoting herself to all kinds of good
  deeds.
• 1 Timothy 510
• Offer hospitality to one another without
  grumbling.
• 1 Peter 49

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What is assumed in order to practice hospitality?

• Share with Gods people who are in need.
  Practice hospitality.
• Romans 1213

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• There was an estate nearby that belonged to
  Publius, the chief official of the island. He
  welcomed us to his home and for three days
  entertained us hospitably.
• Acts 287

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• Gaius, whose hospitality I and the whole church
  here enjoy, sends you his greetings.
• Erastus, who is the citys director of public
  works, and our brother Quartus send you their
  greetings.
• Romans 1623

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• So he started out, and on his way he met an
  Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge
  of all the treasury of Candace, queen of the
  Ethiopians. This man had gone to Jerusalem to
  worship.
• Acts 827

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• Jesus traveled about from one town and village
  to another, proclaiming the good newsThe Twelve
  were with him, and also some women who had been
  cured of evil spirits and diseases Mary (called
  Magdalene) Joanna the wife of Cuza, the manager
  of Herods household Susanna and many others.
  These women were helping to support them out of
  their own means. Luke 81-3

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• You sympathized with those in prison and
  joyfully accepted the confiscation of your
  property, because you knew that you yourselves
  had better and lasting possessions.
• Hebrews 1034

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• When this had dawned on him, he went to the
  house of Mary the mother of John, also called
  Mark, where many people had gathered and were
  praying.
• Acts 1212
• The churches in the province of Asia send you
  greetings. Aquila and Priscilla greet you warmly
  in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at
  their house.
• 1 Corinthians 1619

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• Guidance for Lifestyle choices
• Avoid legalism
• Avoid one size fits all
• Search the Scriptures
• Set examples raise the bar
• Ask God for His leading
• But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the
  Father will send in my name, will teach you all
  things and will remind you of everything I have
  said to you. John 1426

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• John Piper
• Three billion people today are outside Jesus
  Christ. Two-thirds of them have no viable
  Christian witness in their culture. If they are
  to hearand Christ commands that they hearthen
  cross-cultural missionaries will have to be sent
  and paid for. All the wealth needed to send this
  new army of good news

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• ambassadors is already in the church. If we,
  like Paul, are content with the simple
  necessities of life, hundreds of millions of
  dollars in the church would be released to take
  the gospel to the frontiers. The revolution of
  joy and freedom it would cause at home would be
  the best local witness imaginable.
• John Piper