There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.
Money is neither good nor bad. It simply amplifies what is in the heart of the one who controls it.
Every day you make a choice either to sow some of your seed or to eat it. When you exercise faith and sow, you release God's law of prosperity. When you give in to your fear and eat your seed, or hide it, you release God's law of poverty.
Why do you need to know that? Because until you know that Jesus was prosperous, you won't be either. You may have His kindness, you may have His gentleness, you may have all His other attributes, but you'll never have His prosperity.
Jesus was handling big money because that treasurer He had was a thief. Now you can't tell me that a ministry with a treasurer that's a thief can operate on a few pennies. It took big money to operate that ministry because Judas was stealing out of that bag. If you have a treasurer, that means you have a lot of money.
With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?
You have to forgive everybody. It's the best beauty treatment.
So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
The real Da'wah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.