Wealth & Money Quote by David Wilkerson

The line is a careful piece of religious branding: a claim of purity that also functions as a soft ask. Wilkerson frames his operation as "supported entirely by faith", but immediately translates that faith into a practical mechanism: "missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks". The cadence of that last clause matters. It normalizes the exchange (message on a schedule, donation on a schedule) while keeping the transaction spiritually laundered. The ministry isn’t selling; it’s being sustained.

"We seldom mention money" is less a reassurance than a preemptive defense against the modern suspicion that televangelism and fundraising are inseparable. In the late 20th century, American Christianity was crowded with high-gloss ministries that treated guilt as a payment plan. Wilkerson, best known for The Cross and the Switchblade and for an urban, street-level credibility, positions himself as the opposite of the prosperity hustle: minimal talk, maximal sincerity.

The subtext is a trust contract. By insisting "we never burden supporters", he shifts the emotional load away from coercion and toward voluntary identity. If you give, you’re not being pressured; you’re the kind of person who responds freely to conviction. It’s a savvy reversal: the donor becomes agent, not mark. And "readers" is telling - not "members" or "congregants". This is a dispersed audience, connected by print (or later email), where the relationship must be continually re-legitimized. The statement does that work: it sanctifies the pipeline without naming it.