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Oct 22, 2024 · 6. Are you leveraging offering talks each week to connect giving to impact and generosity to spiritual growth? A weekly offering talk that focuses on the transformation of one life is a built-in opportunity to champion your church’s impact and help worshipers experience the impact of their generosity on others.
If you find the courage to try new things, your capacity to do more ministry will multiply as you become more effective at making disciples and funding ministry. Joe Park is Managing Partner at Horizons Stewardship [www.horizons.net], a comprehensive organization focused on helping churches design and launch generosity initiatives that make disciples and fund ministry.
Oct 20, 2022 · And if any clergy were caught in sexual sins, or in drunkenness, they would lose their benefices as a punishment (canons 14 and 15, respectively), which presumably should have constituted motivation for sinful priests and bishops to amend their scandalous lives. Needless to say, these actions taken at the Fourth Lateran Council didn’t eliminate all the Church’s benefice-related problems ...
Mar 30, 2020 · There are three key focal points that you will need to leverage to embrace God’s preferred future for your church or ministry: strategy, communications and funding. You can’t address one without accounting for the other two. All three must be working in harmony to grow into your God-inspired ministry potential.
- Do not panic. This is not the end of the world. It happens in every church, even the great ones.
- Give thanks. God can use this for your good and His glory if your team handles it well.
- Pray. Seek the Lord. It’s His church and He is the operator (Matthew 16:18). Ask what He wants you to do.
- Investigate. See if you can find out the problem. If your community is on the decline and the economy is headed south, or people are upset at something and are dropping out, then at least you know what you’re dealing with.
Dec 9, 2019 · Let’s look at several of these economic impacts. 1. Employment. A church’s income is the collective donations of individuals. These people either give from money they earn or money they’ve saved. So, when members of your congregation are unemployed, this has a direct impact on your church’s income.
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May 3, 2017 · The primary reason churches decline and lose their sense of hope and passion is the lack of visionary leadership. Pastors and significant lay leaders without vision, purpose and an effective strategy create a leadership vacuum that results in a misalignment of resources that rob churches of fruitful outcomes for effort and resources invested. 2.