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    Total Stewardship: A Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering Personal and Church Finances
    Total Stewardship: A Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering Personal and Church Finances
    Total Stewardship: A Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering Personal and Church Finances
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    Total Stewardship: A Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering Personal and Church Finances

    By Craig A. Dunn, Larry Moore and Stan Toler

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    Have you ever wondered what the word “stewardship” means? Well-known authors Craig Dunn, Larry Moore, and Stan Toler tackle the issue by presenting a completely new way of understanding personal and church finances. Within the pages of Total Stewardship, the trio explains six key principles to understanding money, as well as ten steps to developing a financial roadmap. Along with these insights, the authors uncover the six most common errors in handling charitable gifts, and twelve steps to a successful campaign. Jump into this comprehensive step-by-step guide to helping master stewardship through your personal & church finances!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWesleyanInvestmentFoundation
    Release dateJan 22, 2016
    ISBN9780996995818
    Total Stewardship: A Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering Personal and Church Finances

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      Total Stewardship - Craig A. Dunn

      Copyright © 2015 by Craig A. Dunn, Larry Moore and Stan Toler

      ©2015 Published by Wesleyan Investment Foundation

      Total Stewardship: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering Personal & Church Finances

      Craig A. Dunn, Larry Moore and Stan Toler

      ISBN: 978-0-9969958-1-8

      All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV ®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.

      Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

      Cover and Interior Design by D.E. West, Dust Jacket Creative Services

      Digitally published by Dust Jacket Press on Smashwords

      License Notes

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      CONTENTS

      Cover Page

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Introduction

      Part 1: WHOLE LIFE STEWARDSHIP

      Seven Things You Must Know to Experience God’s Blessing

      1. Six Key Principles You Must Understand about Money

      2. The Essential Difference between Ownership and Stewardship

      3. The Prosperity Trap

      4. The Hidden Value of Time

      5. How to Maximize Your Talents

      6. Three Steps to Creating Financial Impact

      7. The One Thing Generous People Know

      Part 2: PERSONAL FINANCES

      Your Ten Step Roadmap to Financial Freedom

      8. Developing a Financial Roadmap

      9. The How and Why of Retirement Planning

      10. You Need an Estate Plan!

      Part 3: CHURCH FINANCES

      Benchmarks for Healthy Churches

      11. The ABC’s of the Pastor’s Pay

      12. Church Budgeting Made Easy

      13. Accountability: Your Stay Out of Jail Free Card

      14. How to Create a Financial Dashboard

      15. The Six Most Common Errors in Handling Charitable Gifts

      Part 4: FUND DEVELOPMENT

      What Could You Do with More Money?

      16. How to Create New Givers

      17. The Most Common Mistake in Capital Fund Drives

      18. Twelve Steps to a Successful Campaign

      19. How to Talk to a Banker: What You Need to Secure a Loan

      20. Six Types of Money You’re Leaving on the Table

      Afterword

      Appendix

      INTRODUCTION

      This book describes a completely new way of understanding stewardship than most of us are used to. Simply put, it begins with a lifestyle of abundance, generosity, and openness to others, and it leads to our openhanded management of all that God has given to us. When we recognize two foundational truths, everything else falls into line.

      Truth One: God has blessed us abundantly with all that we need in this world.

      Truth Two: God invites us to join him in tending to the good world he created.

      When you understand that, you understand everything. These two ideas will change the way you think about stewardship. More than that, they will change your life.

      Most of us think of stewardship as duty. The word itself conjures an image of obligation—paying our tithe, paying our denominational assessments, urging people to give just a little more to the church. That kind of thinking locks us into a practice of stewardship that uses outward obedience to mask secret rebellion against God and his way of thinking. So much better is the attitude of John Wesley, who understood the abundance mind-set and practiced openhearted, openhanded generosity. He taught this regarding personal finances: Gain all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can.

      That is great advice, but generosity does not come naturally to most of us. Our view of stewardship may be better summarized by this twist on Wesley’s words: Earn all you can, can all you get, sit on the lid! Many good Christians find it difficult to practice true stewardship. In fact, we are trained by the society we live in to think in just the opposite terms about money and financial management. We believe that we’ll never have enough. We always need more, and we must cling tightly to the few precious resources we have. Ask a wealthy man How much money does it take to be happy? His answer: Just a little more. That is unfortunate, because generosity is the first law of economics in God’s kingdom. When we are generous with what we have, we honor God, impact others, and receive a blessing in the process.

      This book is a practical guide for improving not only your personal finances but also your leadership in the area of stewardship. Both you and your congregation will grow stronger financially—and become more effective in ministry—by practicing the principles taught here. We will identify the major obstacles to practicing true stewardship, and you will discover that it is possible to have a complete change of heart in the area of personal and church finances. More than that, you’ll learn valuable, practical strategies for making better use of the resources God has given you and your congregation. As you do, you’ll discover a new way of thinking about stewardship and a new way of partnering with God in his great plan to reconcile the world to himself.

      Here’s a preview of what will happen in your life as a result of this new thinking. You will—

      Learn the secrets to successful personal financial management.

      Avoid the single greatest pitfall in personal finances— the prosperity trap.

      Discover the one way to personal financial freedom.

      Gain confidence in your planning for retirement.

      Personal finances are a starting point, but they are only part of the picture. To practice true stewardship, your wise management must extend to the church that God has placed under your care. In this book, you will also—

      Create solid financial benchmarks for your church.

      Take the frustration out of church budgeting.

      Ensure that your church makes the most of its resources.

      Learn to generate new funding sources for your ministry.

      God doesn’t intend for us to be trapped by the standards of this world; he has given us a new way to live, a new way to relate to others—and a new way to think about the resources that he so generously provides. Are you ready for the adventure?

      Let’s get started!

      Part 1

      WHOLE LIFE STEWARDSHIP

      Seven Things You Must Know to

      Experience God’s Blessing

      Stewardship is not merely one aspect of life. As a believer in the God who created heaven and earth, your entire life is about wisely using every resource God has placed within your care – including your body, your time, your talents, and your treasure.

      In this section, you will discover the seven things you must know in order to faithfully manage your personal resources and fully experience God’s blessing.

      1

      SIX KEY PRINCIPLES YOU MUST

      UNDERSTAND ABOUT MONEY

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