Money for Missions - Not a Priority

For every $100,000 church members give to American churches - only $102 funds missions to Unreached People Groups.

People who know missions financing far better than I will say those numbers are likely pessimistic. So let’s imagine they’re off by a factor of 10. That gets us to 1.02 percent for UPGs.

Is 1 percent of American church budgets enough for the least reached parts of the world? We’re talking about places where people have virtually no access either to the gospel or to the Scriptures in their languages? Source: Gospel Coalition.

Such statistics are difficult to verify, of course. And some modern church leaders would declare that their whole budget is for missions. I would challenge such a sentiment and inquire: Is the modern church really a charity or merely a charity unto itself?