Matthew 26:6-13

Matthew 26:6-13
English Standard Version (ESV)

  I could make the argument that every dime spent building a church could have gone towards feeding the hungry, and while that's true, that church building is a place to gather and encourage and celebrate and grow -- the community that gathers there may give more to the hungry and be transformed into a community with the hungry due to the faithful teaching that goes on in that place.  But it's probably best not to build a $5 million building when a $2.5 million one will do.
  It's all about choices.  At times, the best choice will be to give something away, while at other times, it may not be.  There may be another path.  A mark of a mature Christian is the ability to weigh all the possible options and hopefully choose the one that brings glory to God and builds up the community, but we can't solve every problem, and we can't have everything -- while God is limitless, we are limited in our time and energy and resources. 
  So let go of your anxiety about making the perfect choice.  Seek to glorify God and recognize that we won't always get it perfectly right.  I've made plenty of choices that didn't work out at all like I thought, and God is still at work in me and us!