The most uncomfortable question in church renewal is financial. Grace's first budget review at Covenant Life showed 81% internal and 19% external. The five-year target she proposed to the elders was 60:40. Not because 60:40 is the theologically perfect ratio but because the direction matters more than the destination and because a church that spends more than 60% of its resources on people who already belong has made an implicit theological decision about what the gospel is for. The Resource Velocity question is not primarily about money. It is about what the church believes the gospel is designed to produce.
NB: The Resource Velocity & Mission Funding Metric™ (RVMFM™)
One of four proprietary sub-metrics within the DVIS™️ Deployment & Vocational Impact Score™️, unveiled in The Embassy — Novel 8 of the twelve-novel Heal the World series, on the pillar of Church Renewal and Kingdom Equipping.
"Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give"
This week ask your church leadership one question: what percentage of our budget is currently deployed in our neighbourhood rather than on ourselves? Let the answer be the beginning of a conversation.
Every budget decision is a theological statement. The church that allocates its resources overwhelmingly to internal maintenance has decided — not explicitly but structurally — that its primary obligation is to the comfort of those inside rather than the transformation of those outside. The The DVIS™ (Deployment and Vocational Impact Score™) Resource Velocity and Mission Funding Metric™ — RVMFM™ measures this decision and tracks whether it is changing.
- Churches investing world-class resources in the experience of existing members while spending minimally on the community around them
- Congregation members who give generously without ever asking where their giving is deployed
- The church that is financially thriving by conventional metrics while its neighbourhood remains unchanged
Luke 21:3-4: This poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on. The standard of generous giving is not proportion of surplus. It is proportion of all. The church whose external mission budget is only the surplus after internal maintenance has not yet applied this standard.
The world treats organisational budgets as resource allocation decisions made by those in authority.
God treats the church's budget as a theological statement about what the gospel is for — and holds the community accountable for the proportionality of its deployment.
2 Corinthians 9:6: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. The DVIS applies this principle institutionally: the church that sows sparingly into its neighbourhood reaps sparingly in its impact.
"Lord let our church's budget be a theological document that reflects what we genuinely believe the gospel is for. Give our leadership the courage to reorient our resources toward the neighbourhood You have placed us in. In Jesus' name Amen."
| Time | Duty |
|---|---|
| 10:00 AM | Morning Prayer & Scripture |
| 7:00 PM | Evening Reflection & Journal |
| Daily | Act of Kingdom faithfulness |
Freely ye have received, freely give — but the receiving comes first. Before God asks anything of your resources, He offers you everything of His own, without cost and without condition. That is the gospel: not a demand on what you hold, but a gift you could never fund. Come and receive it today.
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