{"id":66921,"date":"2023-11-07T14:10:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=66921"},"modified":"2023-11-07T14:26:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:26:35","slug":"how-to-do-ministry-when-you-have-no-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=66921","title":{"rendered":"How to Do Ministry When You Have No Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you do ministry when you don\u2019t have any money? How do you serve the Lord as a church planter while broke? After thirty years of experience, I assure you I have expertise. But wisdom comes from Scripture:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Keep your life free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, \u201cI will never leave you nor forsake you.\u201d So we can confidently say, \u201cThe Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?\u201d (Heb.\u202f13:5\u20136)\u00a0<\/p>\n

The text teaches us four things about doing ministry without money.\u00a0<\/p>\n

  • Be Careful\u00a0\n
  • Be Content\u00a0\n
  • Be Creative\u00a0\n
  • Be Confident\u00a0\n

    1.\u00a0<\/strong> Be Careful (\u201cKeep your life free from love of money.\u202f.\u202f.\u201d)<\/p>\n

    Pastors and church planters should watch their souls closely. Our ministries should be without covetousness, which Colossians 3 calls idolatry. The Bible pushes pastors in particular here, as an elder must not be a \u201clover<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Like King David, we don\u2019t go armed from the armory of the world\u2014no, our stones from the brook are promises from the Word of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":752,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-66921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-leadership","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66923,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66921\/revisions\/66923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}