Book Description

Wow! This is not your father’s church budgeting book! Practical and concise yet biblical and theological with shading of good history, this book has it all.

The writing is crisp.

The chapters, and even subpoints and other sections, are clearly labeled and able to be used as standalones.

A businessman with a theologian’s mind and a pastor’s heart.

This book is a gift. MARK DEVER, senior pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church (Washington, DC) Almost every church has a budget.

And yet too many churches give little thought to the spiritual dimensions of planning, developing, and communicating a budget.

That’s what Jamie means to remedy in this immensely helpful book.

While my Presbyterian sensibilities may quibble here or there, I’m grateful for a terrific resource that is so biblical, practical, accessible, and wise.

This is a book we’ve needed for a long time. KEVIN DEYOUNG, senior pastor, Christ Covenant Church (Matthews, NC); assistant professor of systematic theology, RTS Charlotte If I had just one physical item to evaluate the heartbeat of a local church, it would not be attendance records, baptismal reports, committee assignments, or staff alignments.

I would ask to see the church budget.

The budget of the church is what reveals where the church’s heart is in the midst of a myriad of ministries and missions. Jamie Dunlop has done the local church a great service in this new volume, Budgeting for a Healthy Church.

This is not a book about “budgeting.” It is a book about values—my values, your values—and, as stewards of the ministries of the local church, it is about the church’s values.

Nor is this book simply another theoretical treatise.

These principles have been beaten out on the anvil of personal experience in one of the most biblically-minded local congregations in America. Money talks.

And it speaks volumes about what we truly believe is important and of high priority.

Get this book before you plan your next budget.

Read it .

and reap.

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