This guide explains the journey from an emerging giving who gives primarily because of relationships, tax savings, public recognition, or a feeling of obligation to a giving champion. A giving champion is an individual who is experiencing the joy of givingRead more…
Giving Generously or Living Generously?
‘Living generously, not giving generously needs to be our goal’ says E.G. Jay Link. Identifying three characteristics of people who model generous living, he concludes ‘If we really want to achieve maximum Kingdom impact in our lives, may I suggestRead more…
The Generosity Spiral of Giving and Receiving
This is a very interesting illustration of the growing interaction between giving and receiving – starting with giving to impose (values, ideas and beliefs) and receiving to manipulate through various phases to ultimate giving (giving of your life) and spiritualRead more…
Como Levantar Fondos Para un Proyecto Misionero and Tareas Principales en la Movilización Misionera
COMIBAM, the Ibero-American mission network has 2 excellent articles dealing with financial resource mobilization for mission on their website: Como Levantar Fondos Para un Proyecto Misionero – www.comibam.org/como-levantar-fondos-para-un-proyecto-misionero/ Tareas Principales en la Movilización Misionera – www.comibam.org/tareas-principales-en-la-movilizacion-misionera-2/
Journey to Generosity: Why Become a Generous Christian?
Brian Kluth addresses 5 reasons to become a generous Christian during a sermon in a church Giving helps allows you to see God as Your Provider Giving helps you overcome financial fears and worries Giving help you bring God’s orderRead more…
Biblical Principles of Financial Giving
This Bible study outline from Xenos Christian Fellowship in the US explores how to cultivate a godly manner of dealing with our money and material possessions. The Bible describes this as a habit of consistent, sacrificial financial giving to God’sRead more…
3 Big Ideas for Preaching on the Generosity of God
There are many different angles from where to preach on generosity. In this sermon outline John Richardson focuses on how Christians should imitate the generosity of God. After all, He is the springboard for generosity. He is our starting placeRead more…
The Generous Business A Guide for Incorporating Giving at Work
The emerging trend of the Generous Business is the subject of this resource guide from National Christian Foundation. To help business owners incorporate giving at work, the guide begins with the story of one of the companies who are leadingRead more…
Missions & Money: Achieving greater impact in long-term missions
In this thought provoking article Gilles Gravelle argues that giving to mission should be used better through: 1. Investing in National and Western mission agencies that focus primarily on training national church partners. 2. Changing the spending ratio – givingRead more…
Three Lessons Learned from Generous Giving’s Stewardship Study Notes Project
This paper was originally presented to the leadership of Generous Giving to summarize three lessons that were learned from the Stewardship Study Notes Project.Generous Giving’s Stewardship Study Notes are a passagebypassage thematic commentary covering issues of stewardship and generosity inRead more…