This entry was posted on the Books @ Leadership Network Blog. Passing the Plate, by sociologists Christian Smith, Michael O Emerson and Patricia Snell, is likely to become a landmark book. Oxford University Press is known for high-quality, well-researched books. This 240-page volume, which includes a number of graphs and […]
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I read this blog entry from David Fitch today and thought I’d pass it along to you. While he writes about the situation in the US, there are many parallels to our Canadian context. The Idol Hath Fallen – the Financial Crisis and the Reshaping of the Landscape for Mission
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Christianity Today has a great article on Christians and their giving – or more appropriately, Christians and what they are not giving. Check out this must read article here. The article cites the book Passing the Plate which I mentioned in a blog entry back in September “Why Aren’t Christians
Light and Life Magazine, published by The Free Methodist Church in the US, has a good article on generosity in their January/February 2009 issue. You can read it here.
During this era of economic uncertainty, as believers, we can choose to respond in a number of ways. We can either react like the rest of the world – fear, anxiety, anger, withdrawal or perhaps ignore what is happening and go on with life as usual. Instead I want to
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Dave Ramsey has been helping people get on track financially for many years. His organization has developed the “Financial Peace University” tool which can be used by groups to help people get out of debt and get their financial house in order. Dave has recently initiated a church resource designed
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Check out this short video where Matt Carter, Pastor of Austin Stone Community Church, talks about how they were able to develop missional communities. “When we focused on developing community, we were unable to develop either community or mission, but when we focused on mission we were able to develop
I stumbled upon a website today based at the University of Notre Dame. Christian Smith, a professor and researcher there, received a $5 million grant to conduct research in the area of generosity. The generosity research website may not be too interesting at present given the grant was just given
The following is from a church secretary who, after reading the Giving Ideas page of the website, sent me in some ideas from her own life. When our church went into financial problems the first thing I did was resign as a “paid secretary” and resumed doing the job as
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