About the Book

Spiritual COVID

The number of people who attend Sunday services has become the financial engine that drives the ministry of the average local church. The more people you can gather in your Sunday morning Bible classes, the greater the financial impact it will have on the bottom line of your budget. Most local churches have already figured out what it costs per head to open the front doors of the church building. A dollar value is placed on every person who attends. Those in leadership positions may never tell the folks in the pew what it costs per person to open the doors, but I assure you, most church leadership teams know. There is a business side to any ministry, but when the business side begins to outweigh the ministry side, it is a sure setup to have a form of godliness but not true power. When more money is spent on salaries, buildings, upkeep, and maintenance than on missions and sending people out, we have a symptom of spiritual COVID. It makes it difficult to do what the Holy Spirit wants us to do when we must consider what our overhead expenses are before we can say yes to what God told us to do.