by Rusty Lewis | Apr 27, 2016 | Leadership
Can your people afford to give? Can they afford not to? Here’s the current reality: Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. That statement caught my eye in a personal and revealing article called “The Secret Shame...
by Rusty Lewis | Feb 4, 2015 | Generosity
In a recent debrief with the senior pastor and generosity team of a current church client, we spent time reviewing the just concluded public phase of their recent initiative. (I always value this conversation with my clients – What did we learn? What worked?...
by Rusty Lewis | Oct 28, 2012 | Generosity
In the spring of 2011, Andrea and I had reached giving goals that we had set for ourselves the year before. We were feeling great that God had so blessed us that we were able to give at levels we had never attained before. Having given beyond the tithe for years, this...
by Rusty Lewis | Jul 30, 2012 | Communication
Here is the final post in my six-part series about stories. What do you suppose is going through the minds of your church family when you mention money? Sure, there’s the standard, “Oh, great. Here we go again with the money sermon again.” But what else might be going...
