“When the funds are not coming in and the budget is not being met in the church, several temptations arise. One is to condemn and exhort the misers by publishing a list of contributions; another is to seek to squeeze out a bigger flow of funds by some new and more clever fundraising approach. The proper strategy is always to dig deeper and to use the Gospel, God’s dynamite, to blast open the way to an inexhaustible underground river of God’s grace.”
Harry G. Coiner in “The Secret of God’s Plan,” Concordia Theological Monthly XXXIV, no. 5 (May 1963): 274.