ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast
Most Christian giving doesn't produce a single soul saved.
Welcome to ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast — the show for Christians who measure what really matters: not just meals and clean water, but souls saved and lives transformed. Tim calls it EROI — the eternal return on investment.
Host Tim Barker is the founder of ROI Ministry, a free resource that reviews over 100 ministries each year and publishes a top-10 list of ministries that beat the best charities in the world on cost per person served — while still sharing the gospel and making disciples. Every dollar of every copy of Tim's book, BOOM: What to Do When Life Blows Up Around You, goes straight to vetted gospel + compassion ministries. No fees. No overhead. No skim.
New episodes every Thursday. Topics include: the parable of the talents, the real cost-per-soul in Christian giving, donor advised funds, the kingdom advisor movement, and the verses on the poor that the prosperity gospel skipped.
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ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast
The Verses the Prosperity Gospel Skipped. (Ep. 1)
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Most Christian giving doesn't produce a single soul saved.
In the very first episode of ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast, host Tim Barker opens the books on the largest untapped opportunity in the modern church. The Gordon Conwell Center for the Study of Global Christianity tracked where every Christian dollar actually goes. After 25 years and a near-tripling of total giving, the share reaching the world's unevangelized hasn't moved. Less than one-third of one percent. The rest stays close to home.
This is not a guilt trip. It is a stewardship audit.
In this episode, you'll hear:
- The 2001 vs. 2025 research — and why the percentage hasn't moved
- Where 99.67% of every Christian dollar actually goes
- Why the prosperity gospel skipped the verses that mattered most
- The 3,000× to 30,000× upside when giving is directed to the most faithful, most effective ministries
- Tim's own story: the dangerous prayer, the collapse, the research that changed everything
Tim Barker is the founder of ROI Ministry, a free resource that reviews over 100 ministries each year and publishes a top-10 list of ministries that beat the best charities in the world on cost per person served — while still sharing the gospel and making disciples. Every one of Tim's dollars from every copy of his book, BOOM: What to Do When Life Blows Up Around You, goes straight to vetted gospel + compassion ministries. No fees. No overhead. No skim.
Subscribe to ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast and know you're making a difference.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- The top-10 ministry list and 90+ reviewed ministries: roiministry.org
- BOOM: What to Do When Life Blows Up Around You: https://www.amazon.com/BOOM-What-When-Blows-Around/dp/1646459016/