Working Towards an Indigenous Church (4): A Self-supporting Church

Money and missions is like mixing water and oil; they just don't seem to work together. More problems arise from this need than from any other. Notice, I said "need" because that is what it is. You cannot do mission work without money, and the need to spend money in the mission field is only too obvious. God made man dependent upon the earth for his daily bread. All through history the tension between those who have and those who have not has caused strife among the people and wars among the...