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God's purpose in calling us to lives of faithful stewardship and
generosity isn't merely to sustain the church. Rather, the
continued existence of the church is essential to sustain the
powerful, transformative message of our faith. Lovett H. Weems Jr.
and Ann A. Michel present the Bible's redeeming and transforming
message of generosity, stewardship, and abundance in this
comprehensive guide to Christian financial responsibility. The book
provides practical advice to pastors and church leaders tasked with
funding ministry and inspiring others toward responsible
stewardship and greater generosity. It addresses church
fundraising, stewardship campaigns, budgets, financing capital
needs, endowments, and innovative approaches to economic
sustainability. The book integrates the theological and practical
dimensions of finance to empower congregational leaders to think
critically about stewardship from a Christian perspective, help
them use their personal and congregational possessions in the light
of faith.
God's purpose in calling us to lives of faithful stewardship and
generosity isn't merely to sustain the church. Rather, the
continued existence of the church is essential to sustain the
powerful, transformative message of our faith. Lovett H. Weems Jr.
and Ann A. Michel present the Bible's redeeming and transforming
message of generosity, stewardship, and abundance in this
comprehensive guide to Christian financial responsibility. The book
provides practical advice to pastors and church leaders tasked with
funding ministry and inspiring others toward responsible
stewardship and greater generosity. It addresses church
fundraising, stewardship campaigns, budgets, financing capital
needs, endowments, and innovative approaches to economic
sustainability. The book integrates the theological and practical
dimensions of finance to empower congregational leaders to think
critically about stewardship from a Christian perspective, help
them use their personal and congregational possessions in the light
of faith.
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Few would argue that many challenges face The United Methodist
Church. But what are the core issues and concerns, the ones that
must be addressed if the church is to follow God s leading into the
future? Laying aside what can be merely tweaked or adjusted, what
must the UMC reset about itself? Lovett Weems, one of the most
highly-respected interpreters of contemporary United Methodism,
suggests that we start with the following: - What will happen now
that the increased giving that United Methodists have enjoyed
(despite declining membership numbers) has reached a plateau and
begun to decline? - Why, with 34,000 congregations and $6.5 billion
in annual giving, can t United Methodists add a net increase of
even 1 new disciple of Jesus Christ in a given year? - Why are
United Methodist clergy less concerned with reaching young adults
than are laity? Why are laity unwilling to make the changes to
worship and budgets required to attract these same young adults? -
If the percentage of married couples with young children has
declined by half since the 1950s, why is that still the group we
focus on reaching? - Why are so many mid-sized churches on their
way to becoming small-membership congregations? With insight,
conviction, and calm resolve, Lovett Weems challenges United
Methodists not only to ask these hard questions, but to face up to
the difficult decisions they require of us as we continue to seek
God s will for our lives together. "
Thousands of congregations are in serious trouble. Children are not
being taught the faith. Disciples are not being made. Lives are not
being transformed. The poor are not being blessed. Communities are
not being redeemed. These congregations know something is terribly
wrong. And in most cases, the problems have little to do with the
pastor's prayer life or whether the pastor takes weekly Sabbath
time. In fact, in many of these churches members deeply respect
their pastors as sincerely spiritual people of utmost personal
faith and integrity. But they need more from their pastoral
leaders. They need leaders who define ministry in terms of
fruitfulness as well as faithfulness. They need pastors and lay
leaders who ask about the outcomes of any given ministry or
program, not just its process. Mostly, they need a vision of
ministry that focuses on changing people s lives. Absent that
vision, ministry will fail. In Bearing Fruit, Lovett Weems and Tom
Berlin provide readers with the tools they need to assess the fruit
their ministry bears in the lives of their congregations, their
communities, and the world."
Transformational leaders know how to build on their church's
identity. They know how to make the story of change the next
chapter in the book of the congregation's life, rather than
throwing the book away and trying to start over. An astute student
of management and leadership theory, Weems offers congregational
leaders essential insights into how they can bring about authentic
and faithful growth. Includes congregational case studies, visual
illustrations of key ideas, and insights from other leadership
experts.
The purpose of this book is simple -- to reclaim a vision for
church leadership from the great spiritual awakening known as the
Wesleyan movement. Yet the way one goes about this work, contends
Lovett H. Weems, Jr., is anything but simple. It involves walking a
tightrope between continuity and change. The task is neither to
repeat the past, nor to ignore it. Rather the need is to locate the
genius behind the achievements of the past from which we can learn
for our day. It is to choose selectively those themes and emphases
of the Wesleyan movement that can best inform the practice of
ministry today, and to seek to grow into them. In order to achieve
this, Weems identifies such principles of early Wesleyanism as
beginning with where people are, focusing on service, and
remembering the poor. He then enumerates practices of Wesleyan
leadership, such as leading from the center and the edge, living in
tension, and making "connection" happen. Finally, he names the core
passions of the Wesleyan spirit: knowing God, proclaiming Christ,
and seeking justice.
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