Abstract
Money is an essential element of everyday life. It is required to keep life going. However, the importance of money is not only in having it to meet one’s needs but also in the proper management of it. Like any other human endeavour, Christian missionary activities involve cash; one cannot talk about it without mentioning money. Nevertheless, money also poses a potential danger to the missionary enterprise. It is therefore important to pay attention to money-related issues in Christian missions because the approach taken in handling money in Christian missions can either promote the gospel or delay its advancement and distort its shape. This article will consider biblical perspective of money, importance of money in Christian missions, challenges related to money in Christian missions and how to handle money in Christian missions before conclusion is drawn.
Highlights
In the words of Roland Allen, missionary finance is vital in the sense that it has a severe effect on the relationship between the missionary and the people he is reaching (Allen 1956:65)
The argument of this article is that money is a valuable resource in the Great Commission, which, constitutes a potential threat to the fulfilment of the Great Commission
The author aims at revealing the value and the challenges of money in missions. It begins by briefly discussing the biblical perspective of money
Summary
In the words of Roland Allen, missionary finance is vital in the sense that it has a severe effect on the relationship between the missionary and the people he is reaching (Allen 1956:65). Marvin Newell (2019:1) puts forward three of such matters, namely, strategic giving, strategic receiving and strategic advancement He notes that the place of money in missions has provided a possibility for people who are genuinely blessed by God to invest their resources. God has blessed some http://www.hts.org.za people, and they seek to spend their money for kingdom purposes Knowing that they cannot go to the mission fields in person, they gladly get involved in missions by giving to support those who go. As pointed out above, funding for the Great Commission is provided by individual Christians who believe that they can be involved in world evangelisation by giving their financial resources In this sense, missions is a partnership between the people who give, the agency that sends and the missionaries who go. Using the words of Bonk, he advises that missionaries should live like the ‘righteous rich’ within their target people (Parshall 2004:483)
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