Beyond tithes and offerings: Revolutionising the economics of Pentecostal churches in Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwean economic crisis has exposed the unsustainability of traditional sources Church finances. Churches that depend on tithes, freewill offerings and donations have been facing incapacitation, a disturbing predicament further worsened by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in context abject poverty perennial price hikes basic commodities. While attention given to exploitative commercialisation gospel charismatic churches, scholarship economics classical Pentecostal churches is scanty. Observing fluctuating, unsustainable unreliable incomes, this study explored vulnerability operating without diversified revenue fundamentality economising ecclesiology. Applying theonomic reciprocity concept using literature-based approach, article overviewed nexus between ecclesiology economics, reviewed problematised ecclesial Resultantly, it proposed diversification through business, interrogated problems panaceas doing business as churches. Conclusively, argued when establish investments, they will not only sustain themselves, but also missionise their businesses advance marketplace, hence rationality revolutionising economics.Contribution: This debunks interplay reviewing contextual realities financial Zimbabwe. It calls for scholarly clerical theology stewardship investment towards sustainability, effective operationalisation realisation missio Ecclesiae volatile contexts.