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The Price Tag of a Soul

           How much does it cost to minister to someone?            That might seem like a strange question, but it occurred to me while I was reading a ministry organization’s pamphlet encouraging the reader to give to their ministry. “Every $10 reaches a new child!” it boasted. But that sentence is what made me think. What if I did  not  give $10? Would they be unable to “reach” just one more child? My imagination painted this picture….. Mr. Greene was a missionary in Romania. He was working for this missionary organization reaching children with the gospel. One month, Mr. Greene received his paycheck of $500, which is $250 less than he normally received. So Mr. Greene went out to the schools, visited homes, and helped at orphanages, making sure that for every $10, he talked to one new child about Jesus. By the end of two weeks of working like this, Mr. Greene tallied off his fiftieth reached child as he left the orphanage. “Now I can work on paperwork and respond to