"Trust in the Lord" - Jaci Velasquez and Jill Phillips

Faith-Promise Giving and Missions.....

 
WHAT IS FAITH-PROMISE GIVING?
 
Faith-Promise is usually made during a missions conference, a missions month, or a special missionary emphasis.  The Faith-Promise commitment cards are given to every person with the hope that they have been asking God for the amount that He would give through them for world missions during the following year.
 
It is important to understand that it is a world mission offering that is to be given by faith.  It is not based on what you have to give now or might have to give in the future.  This offering is based upon faith in the Lord of the World Harvest - Jesus Christ!  Every person should ask Him to increase their faith in His promise to meet the commitment.  It is an offering that is made as a promise to God.  No one will ask for it.  No one, other than the Lord, even knows who has promised what amount.  It is given in addition to regular tithes and offerings.  It is an opportunity to watch your faith grow.
 
It is a world mission offering that enables every member to have a meaningful financial part in fulfilling the Great Commission.  It is an offering given to others so that some may GO with the Gospel and others may HEAR the Gospel.  It reaches and changes others and the world with the power of the Word of God.
 
IS FAITH-PROMISE MISSION GIVING SCRIPTURAL?
 
The New Testament is filled with "polity examples" which are binding on the local church today.  There are five of these "How We Are To Do It" examples that are relative to Faith-Promise giving:
 

This passage tells the story of each person in the church at Antioch participating in a cross-cultural offering.  This predominantly Gentile church gave to Jewish churches in Judea.

 

This passage is an admonition for each person in the church at Corinth to give to missions on a regular basis through a systematic plan of giving.

 

This passage depicts several churches in the province of Macedonia giving beyond their financial ability by faith to missionaries Paul and Silas.

 

This passage defines mission giving for each believer within their local church.  They are to give to world missions as God impresses their hearts individually.

 

This passage gives the account of a layman, Gaius, giving by faith repeatedly to missionary evangelists and church planters.

 
Following this Biblical pattern, Cornerstone Bible Church sets a Missions Budget based solely on the faith-promises collected during its annual Missions Conference each October which is over and beyond the regular giving of the church family.  The church now supports over two dozen faith-based missions and missionaries around the world.  Over the more than 60 year history of the church, missions has been at the heart of the vision the church has for reaching the world and its own community with the Gospel of the grace of God.
 
 

 

So send I you to labor unrewarded,

To serve unpaid, unloved, unsought, unknown,

To bear rebuke, to suffer scorn and scoffing,

So send I you to toil for Me alone.

 

So send I you to bind the bruised and broken,

O'er wand'ring souls to work, to weep, to wake,

To bear the burdens of a world a-weary,

So send I you to suffer for My sake.

 

So send I you to loneliness and longing,

With heart a-hungering for the loved and known;

Forsaking home and kindred, friend and dear one,

So send I you to know My love alone.

 

So send I you to leave your life's ambitions,

To die to dear desire, self-will resign,

To labor long and love where men revile you,

So send I you to lose your life for Mine.

 

So send I you to hearts made hard by hatred,

To eyes made blind because they will not see,

To spend, though it be blood, to spend and spare not,

So send I you to taste of Calvary.

 

As the Father hath sent Me,

So send I you.