The State of Church Giving through 2013

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Crisis Or Potential?

  • 25th Edition, October 2015
  • ISBN: 978-0-9843665-5-2
  • By: John L. Ronsvalle and Sylvia Ronsvalle

Topics Include:

  • An analysis of church giving patterns in the U.S. updated through 2013, based on aggregated congregational reports.
  • An original survey of denominational overseas missions income, 2003-2013.
  • An updated review of giving potential of church members in the U.S., including all church members, and for various church populations.
  • An analysis of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey 2013, cash contributions to charitable causes.
  • Although chapter 8 reviews the church member giving and membership data as well as various surveys that suggest a crisis facing the church in the U.S., the emphasis is on the potential for the church in the U.S. to impact global word and deed need in Jesus’ name. Such action, it is suggested, may help reverse the trends that point towards crisis.
  • Historical and modern theological perspectives on money.
  • The church tradition of fearless servanthood.
  • Money as a spiritual power.
  • The role of church institutions.
  • The potential to increase church member giving to address unengaged unreached people groups, and reduce the global under-5 mortality rate at a scale to help, in Jesus’ name, solve, rather than cope with, needs.A final feature is a selection of 95 titles, drawn from many drafted over the years, accompanied by a blank column for the reader’s notes and reflections.

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