Episode 79: We Don’t Like to Talk About it, but the Church is a Business too

2025-08-13

Hey, Friend! Ministers don’t like to talk about ministry as business, but in the U.S. it is in most cases. If you want church to be just ministry, meet in a home, don’t collect money, and have everyone serve as a volunteer. The minute you buy or rent space, start paying people and purchase goods, you have become a nonprofit business with all of the benefits and expectations of the IRS that go along with that. Ministers would do well to fully understand what all of that means so that they can ste...

Hey, Friend!

Ministers don’t like to talk about ministry as business, but in the U.S. it is in most cases.

If you want church to be just ministry, meet in a home, don’t collect money, and have everyone serve as a volunteer.

The minute you buy or rent space, start paying people and purchase goods, you have become a nonprofit business with all of the benefits and expectations of the IRS that go along with that.

Ministers would do well to fully understand what all of that means so that they can steward their budgets accordingly.

In today’s episode, I give a brief overview as to what church as business means and the gratitude we should feel for those bookkeepers and CPA’s out there who effectively steward the church’s resources.

I pray this blesses you!

Becky

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