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Technorati"If ... the church in the U.S., confronted with its lukewarmness, should opt to be earnest and repent, then the church will reflect a change of heart as evident in increased concern for others, displayed through increased church member giving for the purpose of helping others who are in desperate need," the authors say.
The report proposes a triage remedy, urging churches to prioritize in approaching global needs.
Clarifying that the focus isn't on whether unreached people groups should take precedence over evangelism with established accessibility to the Gospel, the authors explain that triage is "a matter of how to mobilize uninvolved church members to complete a task, rather than a determination that one category is more important than the other."
Some of the goals the authors suggest for U.S. churches include engaging all unreached people groups, recovering momentum for the fourth MDG, and recovering a focus on basics by spending less time on trying to influence government and more time on contributing to the global word and deed need.
The State of Church Giving through 2006: Global Triage, MDG 4, and Unreached People Groups, published by Empty Tomb, Inc., is available for purchase at emptytomb.org.
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