What our budget means

I was reviewing the church budget the other day in preparation for putting together 2008's.  To help see where the money goes, I divided the budget into nine categories:

Administration
Apportionments
Buildings
Evangelism
Discipleship
Fellowship
Pastoral Support
Missions
Worship

Ranking them from highest to lowest expenditures, they appear in this order.

Pastoral Support
Administration
Buildings
Apportionments
Discipleship
Worship
Evangelism
Missions
Fellowship

I've heard it said that you can truly tell people's priorities by looking at their calendar and their checkbook.  If the same principle were applied here, what kind of conclusions might one draw about our congregation's priorities?  Now certainly, the money budgeted alone doesn't tell the whole story and I don't want to take this point too far, but I do think it's a fair question.  After all didn't Jesus say, where your money is, that is where your heart will be also? 

Comments

[Joe Pritchett]

Hey John,

How is Josh? Pete is grounded. Give him my best.

Joe