Do people make financial gifts based solely on the
name of a charity?
Some people – unfortunately – do, because giving is
often as much an emotional reaction as an intellec-
tual decision.
Our position, though, is that the wise steward should
not make an important financial decision based on
just the name of a ministry any more than they
should make that decision based on the color of its
logo, the beauty of its website, or any other single
piece of information.
they’re trying to fool you, but these words suggest
that the ministries are involved in certain kinds of
work. Your responsibility as a Christian steward to is
to do enough research to ensure that these words
correspond to the reality of the organization’s work: