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Financial Givers and Missions

?Behind-the-lines missionaries who finance the spread of the gospel are the most critically needed people in the world today. Tragically, those who are called and trained can?t find enough financing to get to the field. They end up doing something other than what God has called them to do and it?s not their fault. Their failure is the failure of behind-the-lines missionaries to do our part.? Home Front Handbook by Woodrow Kroll. p. 80

Living Simply

?We can choose to live more simply that others may simply live. There is enough to go around, but sharing our abundance with others will call us to cut back somewhere, to limit ourselves voluntarily, to live a lifestyle that reflects our knowledge of the condition of people in our world.? Paul Borthwick, How to be a World Class Christian, p. 119

What a Few Pence Can Do

Operation Mobilization, one of the world's largest missions organization, was started by George Verwer, who came to Christ when someone handed him a Bible as a high school student. He writes, "Many people do not ?excel in this grace of giving? because they do not know what their money can do. They do not know that a few pence can buy a Gospel of John and that a whole movement, the size of OM, can come out of a single Gospel of John being given to a 16-year-old. Many Christians fail to realize that without their money, things won?t happen.? (Verwer, George, Out of the Comfort Zone, Vision, Grace, Action, OM Publishing, Waynesboro, GA, 2000 p. 122)

Giving and Mental Health

Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person?s mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people. -- Dr. Karl A. Menninger

Churchill on Giving

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.? -- Winston Churchill

Marriage as Transferring Funds

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran

Riches and a Thousand Troubles

Riches prick us with a thousand troubles in getting them, as many cares in preserving them, and yet more anxiety in spending them, and with grief in losing them. -- St. Francis

Having Everything, Telling What Matters

Sometimes when you have everything, you can?t really tell what matters. -? Christina Onassis, (Daughter of Billionaire Aristotle Onassis, at the time the richest man in the world. She had a tax-free income of $1,000,000.000 per week, dying at age 37, probably as a result of the Barbituates that helped her deal with her emotionally troubled life.)

Money to Impress Those You Don't Like

Too many people spend money they haven?t earned, to buy things they don?t want, to impress people they don?t even like. ? Will Rogers

Money Can't Get You Everywhere

Money is that something which buys everything but happiness, and takes a man everywhere but heaven. ? John Woodbridge Patten

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