Annual audits should be conducted as required by the specific regulatory authority in your country and state. Always engage an auditor who has no conflict of interest with your church. John Finkelde

A church leader must carefully protect their heart from greed and envy, and deal with scrupulous integrity their personal finances. Also, the church must employ best practices in their financial processes with annual independent audits, accountability and clear policies for how the finances are managed. John Finkelde

A financial scandal in any organization is damaging, but in a church they are even more destructive. It is not just the financial loss to be borne, but also the breaking of trust, and the destruction of both the leader’s and church’s reputation and credibility within the community. John Finkelde

The Lord is the owner. We manage the resources God has given us. We must use them for His ultimate glory and honour, to advance the Kingdom in everyday life and build the church of Jesus Christ. John Finkelde

Ultimately, God is the provider of every resource needed in the church. John Finkelde

The first fundamental principle of financial intelligence is to see God as the sole provider — personally and as a church congregation. John Finkelde

What’s in your heart will flow to those you care for. You cannot stop this organic flow of life and truth. John Finkelde

People with poor financial habits — who are sloppy or stingy with their money, who spend with minimal self-control and mismanage their own finances — usually don’t succeed over time in leading a church into fruitfulness. John Finkelde

As elsewhere, you can’t fit Jesus’ resurrection into anyone else’s world view. That isn’t surprising; the resurrection inaugurates God’s new creation. It transforms the old world, but it can’t fit into the categories of the old world. Tom Wright

But the dark powers have ways of striking back; and when they do, they don’t play fair. Remind yourself of this, any pastors reading this, Tom Wright