Every budgeting process involves this basic question: "How much should we give to each ministry and line item?" From this major question, a series of other questions needs to be answered. Use this assessment tool to find out what progress your church has made in answering them. Under each item, check the box that is the most accurate description of your church.
Successful visions seem to possess several characteristics:
1. Solid in core. People rightly get frustrated when the reason the church exists changes. Our church, for example, has this primary mission: "We will live the Great Commission" (Matt. 28:19–20). Although our church ministers to the poor through our food pantry, feeding the poor isn't why we exist; we exist to reach the lost for Christ.
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Successful visions seem to possess several characteristics:
1. Solid in core. People rightly get frustrated when the reason the church exists changes. Our church, for example, has this primary mission: "We will live the Great Commission" (Matt. 28:19-20). Although our church ministers to the poor through our food pantry, feeding the poor isn't why we exist; we exist to reach the lost for Christ.
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