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How To Increase Giving In Your Church – Part 2

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In his book How To Increase Giving In Your Church, George Barna gives several key principles for effective stewardship. Our challenge is to create an environment and facilitate a mind-set in which people want to donate money to the church for the right reasons. The following are some guidelines toward achieving that outcome.

This is Part 2 of “How To Increase Giving In Your Church “

8. Dream big, pray big, ask big, minister big.

  • No dream, no vision, no need, no ministry transcends the capacity of our Go. Sometimes we reflect our lack of faith in our unwillingness to let Him determine the vision, and in our refusal to truly believe He can accomplish incredible things through us.

9. Ministry donors do not just give; they invest.

  • Set your sights high. Challenge people to do their homework, to evaluate all the options they have for stewardship and to behave as wise investors of funds. Once you investors have done their part, live up to your part of the bargain: Give them an unbeatable return on the investment.

10. Stewardship is a lifestyle, not an event.

  • You may choose to sponsor fund-raising events, but always remind your people that stewardship is a way of living. As in dimension of our lives, if we take God’s promises and admonitions seriously and develop habits that reflect those promises and admonitions, we will soon be able to transfer our focus from wondering if He will bless us for our faithfulness to amazement at how He blesses us.

11. Listen carefully, respond strategically, thank people sincerely.

  • Good leaders listen to the people; they respond so that they hear in strategic ways, and when the people live up to the expectations placed upon them, sincere appreciation is one of the rewards and ongoing motivations for their continued involvement. Just as people give for the benefit of other people, so they also give in response to those who have demonstrated sufficient interest and concern about the donor to spark such generosity. The Holy Spirit gets the credit for inspiring people to give; and you must allow the Holy Spirit to direct your steps, too, as you interact with your donors.

12. Use the pastor appropriately in the stewardship process.

  • The Pastor has been called as the spiritual leader of the church. Although stewardship is one of the spiritual endeavors that people must understand, embrace and in live out, the pastor should not be the chief fundraiser. That undermines the pastor’s standing in the eyes of the people. The pastor must embrace the stewardship process, model it, teach it, help strategically prepare the stewardship campaign and publicly and unabashedly endorse the campaign. The church does the Pastor–and the congregation a disservice if it expects the Pastor to be the primary fund-raiser.

13. People appreciate useful information

  • Do not shy away from opportunities to teach your congregation about the joys, challenges and privileges of being God’s stewards. If taught in a practical, sensitive and Bible-based manner, people are grateful for information that helps them know and fulfill their responsibilities as believers. Most Christians are pleased to discover that we’re stewards, not mere consumers; that we have an obligation to the church that supports us spiritually; that we are to invest, not just give away our money; and that we are stewards of more than just money.

14. Let love, compassion and servanthood, not dollar goals, be your motivations.

  • It is incredibly easy to get caught up in “the chase” and forget the purpose of a stewardship campaign. It is not about meeting goals. It is not about raising money. It is not about beating last year’s totals, or outraising other churches. Your campaign is about ministry and your people so they can minister to others and receive the joy of obedience and servanthood. Model that attitude for them. It is contagious.

 

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