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Not Your Parents Offering Plate: A New Vision for Financial Stewardship
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Hearing a young attorney speak of the faith-based reasons for which he had just made a substantial monetary gift to a community youth center, Clif Christopher asked the speaker if he would consider making a similar contribution to the congregation of which he was an active member. "Lord no, they wouldn't know what to do with it" was the answer.That, in a nutshell, describes the problem churches are facing in their stewardship efforts, says Christopher. Unlike leading nonprofit agencies and institutions, we too often fail to convince potential givers that their gifts will have "impact" and "significance." In this book, Christopher lays out the main reasons for this failure to capture the imagination of potential givers, including our frequent failure "simply to ask." Written with the needs of pastors and stewardship teams in mind, ""Not Your Parents Offering Plate" "provides immediate, practical guidance to all who seek to help God 's people be better stewards of their resources. Also available: The engaging follow up book - Whose Offering Plate is It? |
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Pages 123
Dimensions: Length: 0.25" Width: 5.25" Height: 8.25"
Weight: 0.45 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Aug 1, 2008
Publisher Abingdon Church Supplies
ISBN 068764853X
EAN 9780687648535
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 | What STEWARDSHIP MESSAGE are you telling your Congregation? Mar 14, 2009 |
Every coin has two sides, but the church seems stuck on one side.
This book is not about the traditional biblical stewardship message of tithing (i.e., one side of the Stewardship coin). Of course, all church folks should be responding to the grace of God by returning a tenth (In case you need a reminder, go read the OT prophet book of Malachi, Chapter 3).
This book focuses on the other side of the Stewardship coin, HOW DO WE PROMOTE GIVING in the church when we COMPETE against all the thousands of other non-profit organizations asking for that same dollar traditionally given to the church.
What I like about this book is the new perspective on how to challenge people to give to the church using the good marketing techniques used by the competition. Yes, we (the leadership of the church) need to tell our people of the good things we do with the gifts (tithes and offerings) the church receives. We need to give the poeple of our congregations a reason to give their charity dollars to the church.
The book provides excellent examples of good and bad from the author's real life experiences. It also highlites what the pastor and Stewardship Committee (or Trustees) should be doing to accomplish this new marketing perspective.
I thought so highly of this book that I personally bought five additional copies for our church's Stewardship Committee and Pastor. After reading the book, you might want to consider doing the same for your leaders... | | | Write your own review about Not Your Parents Offering Plate: A New Vision for Financial Stewardship
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