The 21st-Century Offering
“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 due to technology, but it […]
A Come Back Strategy for Christmas
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 new people in the door. […]
Could Digital Payments Give You a Jolly Holiday?
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 winner was mobile shopping via […]
From The Stewardship Journal Team
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 what someone wrote to […]