The 2024 #GivingTuesday Playbook
My Goal for this Playbook “My goal in preaching is for you to come back next week and bring a friend.” I once heard Andy
The Future of Giving: It Ain’t Good, Finale
Think like a pastor. That’s what I often write on my yellow legal thinking pad as I face each stewardship issue. I ask myself, “If
The SBC’s Ticking Time Bomb
Southern Baptist churches are heading into a crisis that will determine which local churches will survive and which will slowly die. The chart above identifies
Reactivating Lost Donors
As we finish this series on the state of giving to churches, we wanted to provide you with insights on how to address the decline
The Future of Giving: It Ain’t Good, Part 2
The average evangelical was giving away only 3.2% of household income to either church or charity, and 19% gave not a penny to either over
An Interview with Ron Sellers
Last week, I interviewed Ron Sellers of Grey Matter Research, one of the authors of a new study on giving entitled The Giving Gap: Changes