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Entrusted With True Riches

The Do’s and Don’ts for Church Leaders in the Area of Finance

Jesus said in Luke 16:11, ‘So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?’ As a team, we have known tests and blessing in this area. Here are my reflections for church leaders:

Common Mistakes:

  1. We don’t intentionally apply faith for increase in our budgets
  2. Leaders believe that their personal stewardship doesn’t matter
  3. We focus on giving, not stewardship
  4. It is left to the “finance guys” with a type of mistaken pride around what are spiritual matters
  5. Infrequent, poor quality communication to the church

Positive Leadership:

  1. Practice excellence in stewardship, personally and corporately
  2. Model true, open accountability in all leaders
  3. Set specific faith goals with prayer and fasting
  4. Make finance part of vision-building, based on God’s biblical economic principles
  5. Habitually sow into the kingdom outside of ourselves

 

Chris is an elder of Living Hope in the Isle of Man. He is married to Carole and they have two married daughters. Chris was in the business world for 26 years before joining the church staff. He now works apostolically into the British Isles & Europe. Follow him on Facebook and Instagram.

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