Brad, an Ohio entrepreneur, wanted to help a young church planter get started. So, when Brad learned this pastor had budgeted $5,000 per month for a church facility, Brad bought an old church building that was on the market for $600,000.
He leased it to this new church for $5,000 a month. Two years later, due to the improvements made to the church, the building appraised at $2.5 million. Brad decided to donate the building to the church.
Grinning, Brad told me, “I received a $900,000 refund check from the IRS and the church received a free building. Isn’t God good?”
Proverbs 11:25 says, “A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.”
In God’s economy, creative generosity makes much more sense than the world can possibly fathom.
