http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-10-11-church-giving_N.htm
[USA Today] 13 Oct 2008--Americans spent nearly twice as much on first-day sales of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV as would be needed by the Southern Baptist Convention to share the gospel with all the world's "unreached people groups" by 2010, according to a new report on church giving.
The annual report, by the Illinois-based group Empty Tomb Inc., found a general downward trend in church member giving through 2006, which led authors to propose a "global triage to treat what ails the church."
They said focusing on reaching new "people groups" and preventing child deaths around the world would help U.S. churches "sort out their priorities" to use what funds they do have more efficiently.
"It's difficult to avoid the label of 'lukewarm' when analyzing the church's level of response to Jesus' Great Commandment and Great Commission," said John Ronsvalle, who co-authored the study with his wife, Sylvia.
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