Calvin Guy explains where the first century Church (30 - 300AD) spent it's money in his chapter "Pilgrimage Toward the House Church" in the book Discipling the City:
"Their emphasis was almost entirely on people. Spared both the expense and concern of erecting and maintaining a building, they were soon involved in expending all available funds in loving service to the widows and orphans. Charity was not the incidental, fractional percentage of the budget. It was the budget."
Do you sometimes get the general sense that we are so wealthy in the Church in the U.S. that we just look around for something to blow our money on? And of course when we do find something, it just-so-happens to "strangely" be for us in some way (building projects, bloated pastor salaries, programs, retreats, conferences, and on and on...).
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