“The mission of Missouri Baptists to transform lives and communities with the gospel is too important to risk losing any of our churches. As I read and reviewed the current stress on giving, I knew we had to take action and provide our churches with the tools and resources to...
I’ll never forget days like that day in March of 2020 when our nation came to a screeching halt. I was in the shower getting ready to fly to Atlanta to talk with a denominational guy about helping them build a stewardship platform. I kept hearing my phone ring. The...
The other day on X, I stumbled across Chad Brooks @revchadbrooks. Of course, with a cool name like Brooks, I had to follow him. After visiting his site, I think he got all the smarts in the Brooks line. As far as we know, we aren’t related. But we are...
Welcome to the last edition of the 2023 Stewardship Journal. Before we share what is in this week’s Journal, please allow us to first thank you for your continued support. We appreciate your words of encouragement and your support. We believe our best days are ahead of us! Here is...
"Digital offerings will be the end of the offering as worship." That is what someone wrote to me many years ago when I wrote a post encouraging churches to set up online giving. Ten years later, my response is still the same as I gave then: the offering isn't dead...
The following post can be found at: https://www.onlinegiving.org/blog My goal in preaching is to get people to come back next week and bring a friend. I once heard a pastor at a preaching conference state that as his goal in preaching each week. Churches spend much time and effort getting...
Digital Payments Have a Jolly Holiday. That was a recent Wall Street Journal headline of an article that tracked Black Friday Cyber Monday sales for 2023. This year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales were flat, rising only 1.1% over last year. However, e-commerce sales were up 8.5%. The real...
Welcome to another edition of the Stewardship Journal. What will the offering of the future look like? How should churches respond to the changes in commerce? We probe those questions and more in this edition of the Journal. "Digital offerings will be the end of the offering as worship." That is...
As Southern Baptists turn their attention to the Lottie Moon Christmas offering, we thought this post by Michael Cabell, Assistant to the Executive Director for Convention Relations for the Kentucky Baptist Convention, summed up well why we cooperate together. The post, used with permission, was first shared at https://michaelcabell.com/2023/11/04/should-we-fund-missionaries-independently-or-cooperatively/ All...
What should pastors be thinking? That is the question I often ask myself. Notice I said what pastors should be thinking about. At this time of year, I’m lucky if a pastor even opens my emails! This is one of your busiest times of the year, but as we near...
