Tag: finances
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5 Indicators that your Church is Financially Overextended
Earlier this fall in a post entitled “Breaking Through your Capacity Lid,” I wrote that financial shortfalls at churches can limit opportunities. I suggested that there are two sides to finances in a church setting. One is building a culture of generosity in your church and then the other is managing that generosity so you…
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Why People don’t Financially Invest in your Church
I recently read Not Your Parents’ Offering Plate by Clif Christopher. It’s a quick read that you can get through in one sitting, but it’s full of principles that you’ll come back to over and over again. There are a lot of reasons why people don’t give to churches as much as they used to.…
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Top 10 Reasons Churches get Stuck
For more than 18 years I’ve been working full-time in a local church setting. The last 13 of those have been in large mega-church and multi-site settings. I’ve had the unique opportunity to work with an incredible team of people at a the Unstuck Group a successful consulting firm specializing in helping churches get unstuck.…
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5 Characteristics of Generous Churches
Generosity stands in direct opposition to our sin nature. After all most of us don’t wake up thinking about someone else’s day. But what we have to get done today sure has a tendency to consume our thoughts. Fortunately for us we have a generous God. After all “For God so loved the world that…
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Top Posts of 2013 #6: “Engaging the Givers in Your Church”
Money can be a touchy subject in churches, but it doesn’t have to be. This post includes the first 3 of 6 ideas that I’ve seen be effective in engaging with the givers in churches. When it comes to engaging major givers in the church a majority pastors feel uncomfortable at best. Many pastors don’t…