Tag: giving
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20 Ways Church Leaders can Help their Church become more Generous
I’ve been around very few church leaders that didn’t wish their people would become more generous. But very few church leaders have defined a strategy to help their people take steps to become more generous. Fortunately last week I had a conversation with the Leadership Coaching Network that I lead about generosity and they came…
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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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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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The Top 10 Blog Posts of 2013
I recently just finished counting down the top 10 blog posts of 2013 on Helping Churches Make Vision Real! These are the posts that generated the most traffic and social media interaction. The most popular topics this year were volunteers, giving & financial stewardship, leadership, and managing the tension of between being an insider-focused or…
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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…