num_pages: 151
description: The State of Church Giving through 2004 (Will We Will?) *Updates on church member giving and membership trends through 2004.*A new survey of 2003 and 2004 Overseas Missions support in 34 denominations.*Calculations of the cents per day cost per church member to address global evangelization and impacting global need.*A calculation of Roman Catholic potential giving in eight archdioceses.*An analysis of a proposal by the National Council of the Churches of Christ U.S.A. to increase giving by 0.7% for global need as applied to The United Methodist Church.*The effects of the unified budget in one denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention.*A discussion of why and how much Americans give.*A general discussion of the question, "Will We Will?"-An exploration of traditional and meta-denominations.-The dynamics of disintermediation and reintermediation between denominations and congregations.-The "institutional enslavement of overseas missions" by denominational use of the unified budget.-The choice before congregations between serving as global mission outreach and discipleship centers, or succumbing to Mammonism and becoming irrelevant to the work of the kingdom of God.
language: English
title: The State of Church Giving Through 2004
titlecomplete: The State of Church Giving Through 2004 (Will We Will?)
publisher: Empty Tomb, Inc.