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developed most members of the Church's governing bodies cannot judge
how far they may be acceptable. And until the various peripheral
aspects are decided to a reasonably certain degree, then the finance
function especially, resting as it does in the middle, cannot go much
beyond the ad hoc, theoretical, stage of development.
Beveridge, touching cautiously on this very sensitive area
opines that "Though most English churchmen probably fight shy of
anything that suggests the application of the methods of big business
or the technique of the 'efficiency expert' to the Church, there is
no spiritual merit in being unbusinesslike if that means also being
ineffective"
(B2)
; and Slade, a trifle more firmly, states "A Church
differs from a business in its basic motive but in order to carry out
its spiritual work it needs business methods. Like other organisations
a Church must have an income and must live within its income, and
business methods come into use in securing that income and in
disbursing it"
(B26)
.
In an attempt to stimulate some thoughts, this section enumerates
some of the techniques which might be appropriate.
