In recent years, Americans have spent more money buying Halloween costumes for their pets than the amount given to reach the unreached, Andrew Scott, president of Operation Mobilization U.S. has revealed.
As part of the Rethink Church | Rethink Mission Conference held at McLean Bible Church in Vienna, Virginia, Scott, author of the book Scatter, pointed out that the average Christian household gives about 2 percent of their income to Christian causes. Of that 2 percent, only 5 percent leaves the country, and only 1 percent of that goes to changing the reality of those that have little or no access to the Gospel.
“We spend more money every year on Halloween costumes for our pets than we do on reaching the least of these,” he said. “We have to take a step back and say, ‘What is happening in our world today, and what should we do as a result?’ We need to rethink our models and we need to rethink our message.”
Scott, who has served in the mission field for over 20 years, said that while God is undeniably doing “amazing things all around the world,” there are still 2.8 billion unreached people today. In fact,…
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