Do you spend more time preparing for and executing your announcements each Sunday or your offering time? How you answer this question tells me whether you have a correct view of biblical stewardship. It’s not people I have to fight with about emphasizing giving more during worship services; it’s pastors...
At 500 offering talks, I stopped counting how many I had written. Suffice it to say that I know a thing or two about offering talks, as I’ve seen a few. I wrote a blog post on this topic a few years ago.1. Here is what I wrote: First, let me...
The following was originally posted at: https://www.onlinegiving.org/support/developing-a-digital-giving-strategy How churches receive the offering has changed drastically from the days of dropping in coins. As we stated in our last post, the future of giving is digital. This is why you must develop a digital giving strategy. In our last post, we shared...
“This is a football!” Legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi once started a team meeting after a loss, stating that the team would return to the basics. He held up a football and said, “Gentlemen, this is a football.” Sometimes, you must go back to the fundamentals. The same...
If you are a golfer, you know the importance of the fundamentals. It starts with a good grip on the club. If you want to improve, you get a coach who can help make the adjustments needed to make your game more effective. Consider me your Stewardship Coach, giving you...
The following post is taken from Dr. Ronnie Floyd’s book Ten Percent: A Call to Biblical Stewardship and is used with his permission. To obtain a free copy of this book available through the SBC’s Executive Committee, go to: https://www.sbc.net/ten-percent/. Dr. Roy Fish taught me about the importance of drawing...
Welcome to the first edition of the 2024 Stewardship Journal. The Journal was started in 2021 by the Missouri Baptist Convention to provide their pastors with information and advice on all things related to stewardship and generosity. With this edition, the Journal is going national, with several state conventions now...
Why should you read the Stewardship Journal? Because, Southern Baptists, we have a problem. Our denomination is in decline. Consider this: According to Thom Rainer, The Southern Baptist Convention lost 1.32 million members in just three years (2020 to 2022), more than any denomination for such a short period.1. In 2022, it...
First, for those new to the Stewardship Coach column/newsletter, my Bonus Section gives you practical advice on how to build out a culture of generosity. In this edition, I write about how to start your giving year out right. January is next only to July as one of the more challenging...
How much time did you take making announcements yesterday compared to how much time you stressed worship through giving? The typical church spends two to three minutes on announcements and zero time mentioning the offering. Is it any wonder that giving is declining, and younger generations are giving less to...
