money
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Communicating Church Spending and Financial Plans
Since so much of this blog is about things I’m learning and developing through my ministry at Hunter Bible Church, I think it’s worth discussing some principles that shape how we communicate our spending and financial plans. We’ve just had… Continue reading
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How much should you pay church staff? #3
Looking at Church staff pay over the last few posts… basically a summary of what our Association Committee discussed and decided last year. In the last post we saw that staff salaries should be: Comparable, according to the work they… Continue reading
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How much should you pay church staff? #2
When our Association Committee reviewed our staff salary packages, we asked the question, “How should staff pay compare to other salaries?” When we looked to the Bible, we found a bunch of passages that gave us some good principles which… Continue reading
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How much should you pay church staff? #1
Last year, our Association Committee (of Elders) discussed a concern that we may not be paying our staff sufficiently. In the past we effectively operated like a small business – paying our staff what we could manage, which wasn’t much, but… Continue reading
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Where to spend your church’s money
The simple answer is to spend money on leaders who will raise up more leaders (or facilitate that process). It’s the principle we see again and again in the bible. The glory of David’s earthly kingship was not his army… Continue reading
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