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Develop your stewardship strategy

People enter every situation with preconceived notions. This is an educational fact. Sometimes, our preconceived notions are completely off base. There are other times when when we know exactly what to expect.

Skeptical people have their guns loaded and are looking for reasons to be more skeptical. When it comes to church, unengaged people expect to be made to feel guilty about not giving. We often play right into their hands by turning a sermon about Noah’s Ark into a challenge to give more. Our financial pleas are often forced and unnatural. We come across looking more like a poorly produced telethon than a church. And the skeptical grow more skeptical, perhaps even cynical...

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