Generous Churches don’t happen by accident. A generous Church is borne out of proper planning and a work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of a Church’s members. Below I explore the building blocks of a generous Church. Doing just one thing is unlikely to make your Church generous. Read more …
Category: Generosity
8 Reasons your members don’t give generously
It would be nice if all our weekly attendees gave regularly to Church. But the statistics show that the average Christian is only giving around 2% of net income. Worse still, 30% of regular attendees give nothing at all. That’s right, nothing! So, why are our members giving so little? Read more …
Tithing Today?
To tithe or not to tithe? This remains to be among the top questions Christians ask today. We want to obey and honor God in our lives — we read the Bible, we pray and go to church, try to be and do good to others — all pretty straightforward. Read more …
How to fundraise over the phone
Fundraising over the phone is common among educational institutions who want to keep alumni involved. When I was at Regent University as a student, I would volunteer in the annual alumni phone-a-thon. It is one of the programs the school use to touch base with its graduates and to invite Read more …
Fundraising Planning Worksheet
Good planning is a pre-requisite for the success of any fundraising campaign. While we know that it is God who provides the resources for His Kingdom work, we have a responsibility to do our part in planning and implementation. Before you launch your fundraising campaign, make sure that you have Read more …
The Freewill Offering
There are two kinds of giving taught in the Scriptures: one is compulsory or mandatory such as to the government in the form of taxes, while the other one is voluntary, such as when giving an offering to God. To differentiate the two, we have to look closely at how Read more …
The Spiritual Side of Fundraising
Henri Nouwen, a Catholic theologian, has a small booklet entitled the “Spirituality of Fundraising,” which I require my fundraising class to read. It never ceases to impact the readers in the way they view fundraising as a spiritual activity. Viewed as a ministry, Nouwen says that “fundraising is as spiritual Read more …
The poor give more
In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of Read more …
How you will know if you’re truly generous
What does TRUE Generosity look like? One of the reasons I believe our Churches have lost their saltiness is that many of us don’t actually know what true generosity really looks like. It should be something that we find easily recognisable. Here’s what it could look like in your Read more …
Where does tithing fit into the New Testament?
In our previous discussions, we have established that tithing was mandated by God and was required of his people in the Old Testament. With that said, the next question then would be whether God still required it of believers in the New Testament. The most interesting thing about the concept Read more …