In sermons and bulletins, leaders urge disciples to give the BCC all the money they can afford, if not more. The elders encouraged disciples to give 20 times their regular weekly donation for this contribution. Some will skip meals, delay significant purchases, or dip into savings. On the following Sunday, with 10,000 disciples present from all over the world, Baird preached that they should give even more. There is no evidence that any BCC leaders are personally profiting from these donations.
Most Protestant sects believe in salvation by grace.
The church's real theology is more subtle. Disciples believe that if you commit yourself to being a disciple of Jesus, and are appropriately baptized, the Holy Spirit will give you the desire to perform the church's duties. Hence, in the BCC's view, disciples who do not want to go to church, make converts, and so on, have problems with their relationship with God. If they are chronically unmotivated, their leaders will say they must not have received the gift of the Holy Spirit at baptism. Therefore, they must not have really committed themselves to being disciples of Jesus, and their baptism is not valid.