Sentences with phrase «spent by local churches»

However, much of the funding that used to be channeled to national churches through mission boards is now being spent by local churches and judicatories on their own hands - on mission projects.

Not exact matches

It sounds good to say «spend less on a building and send the extra money for mission endeavors instead», but in reality that amount money would not be received and sent out by the local church otherwise.

The local church is, further, because it speaks an idiom of human language, an instance of human society that distinguishes itself from many other kinds of societies by the high proportion of language it spends on struggle and grace.