Use Testimonies to Improve Your Offerings
Here is my tip of the day to improve giving, use testimonies to improve your offerings. My mentor in the stewardship field, Dave Sutherland, use to say, “Nothing moves a heart like a heart that has been moved.” We used testimonies regularly in our work with churches...
Changing the 1% Train Wreck
1%. That is the percentage Americans will give to the church of their disposable incomes by the year 2050. That was the finding of empty tomb, inc. a few years back as they tracked the decline in giving since the 1960’s. Currently Americans give around 2% of...
When It Comes to the Offering Guilt Never Works
When it comes to the offering guilt never works. Yet often that is what we use to motivate people to give. No wonder many people are turned off by church thinking all we talk about is money. Too often we are using guilt to get people to give or serve. “We have not...