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.”
“Americans spent nearly twice as much on first-day sales of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV as would be needed by . . . .”
Now that is a fact worth remembering!
What a difference we could make if we kept our priorities straight.