The Wealth Release Capacity of Simple Church

The NT writers urged generous support for traveling leaders such as apostles and evangelists, as well as for the poor (Luke 10:1-11; 1 Cor 9; 3 John 5-8). According to Steve Atkerson, first century believers were able to fund church planters [missions] and assist the poor [benevolence] because they met as house churches, without the financial burden that would have come had they constructed special buildings like their Jewish and pagan contemporaries. Similarly, today’s simple churches have found that without fixed expenditures on bureaucracy such as buildings and salaries, they are free to release their money directly to missions and benevolence. Click here to read more: http://www.box.net/shared/eq39moudi9