[C]hurches need to talk about money. Not only the kind that members give, but how the portion that members retain is spent. Church members give something on the order of 2% or so of income. Medical care is consuming 13% of the gross national product. There is an idolatrous disproportion here. The gospel message has competition in the world, and it is measurable at a pocketbook level. Where a man's treasure is, there will his heart be also. Some of the other places in which money can be spent than on services labeled “medical care” may have as much or more actual productivity for health.
Excerpts from Physician and Pastor: Co-Laborers
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