Session 101 of Church Budgeting blasted the myth that budgets are restrictive and faithless by showing that the first step in crafting a church budget requires seeking God's direction for the upcoming year. Then, after sharing the focus and goals with the church's leaders, a good process allows time …
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Church Budgeting 101 – Where To Begin
The term budget is often divisive. For some, it immediately evokes certain words like restrictive, limiting, confining, rigid, and even faithless. For others, the term church budget says safety, planning, freedom, and stewardship, or for the less churched, biblical management of God's money. When it …
Generating End-of-Year Income for the Church Budget
While not a mystery, it is a universal truth that generating revenue is essential for all organizations to accomplish their mission. During my tenure in the IT department at a leading golf manufacturer, there was a schedule to constantly and strategically introduce new product lines of clubs. In …
4 Tips to a Thriving Church Budget
Recently my wife and I went to a restaurant for dinner. We don't go out as often as we used to, and I found myself analyzing the situation more than usual. My wife, noticing my far-off gaze, asked what I was thinking about. I told her I counted seven servers, three hosts, four bussers, and I bet …
Church Budgeting and the Christmas Bonus
One of the subplots of the Holiday classic movie Christmas Vacation, starring Chevy Chase, is Clark Griswald waiting for his Christmas bonus. Since a Christmas bonus was something that he had received every year, he assumed this year would be the same and put a deposit down on a swimming pool. …
Church Budget What Ifs
I have a confession to make. Sometimes, when I have spare time, I like to imagine some "what ifs" at our church and project what our budget could look like if people tithed. It's more than just a pondering moment; I actually pull the median household income from our city and then calculate the …
