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
Jesus said it twice as often as the Great Commission. We ignored it. (Ep. 2)
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Twice.
That's how often Jesus talked about the poor compared to the Great Commission. We have built entire movements around the Great Commission. Most Christians have never heard the rest.
In Episode 2 of ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast, host Tim Barker walks through the research his team did on the words of Jesus — how often He spoke about the poor, the lost, generosity, money, and the kingdom — and what shows up when the data is laid out side by side. The episode reframes the modern Christian's mental list of Jesus' core teachings, exposes the verses we skipped, and lands on a single, hard question: if Jesus said it twice as often, why don't we teach it twice as often?
In this episode, you'll hear:
- The verse-count research: how often Jesus actually mentioned the poor, the lost, generosity, and money
- Why the Great Commission gets preached and the "least of these" doesn't
- The 3,000× to 30,000× result when giving is directed to the poorest and least reached
- What "bear fruit that will last" actually means in stewardship terms
- Why motivation matters — Jesus attached rewards, not guilt, to wise generosity
- The parable of the talents, and what the third servant's "buried coin" actually represents
This is not a guilt trip. It is a re-ordering.
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/