For more than thirty years I have had a seat most people never get. I have sat beside lead pastors as their CFO. In the board meeting, in the lender's office, in the quiet conversation after everyone else has gone home. I have watched gifted leaders do remarkable things with people. And I have watched many of those same leaders go quiet at the same handful of moments, every time, in every church. The moments are always financial. A pastor who can preach to a thousand people w