How to encourage your church to give
Discipleship is vital to creating a healthy church. When we think of discipleship, we often think of particular spiritual disciplines: Bible study, worship, Scripture memory, serving, etc. Often, as a pastor, I will address these disciplines from the pulpit and encourage the congregation to practice them in everyday life. Yet there was one spiritual gift I consistently avoided, especially in the pulpit—giving. In 2 Corinthians 9, Paul...
