Stewardship Quotations I

Here's an idea: Send this list of my favorite stewardship quotations to each family in your church, ask them to choose one, then tell them you'll be inviting them to tell you what it means during worship sometime this summer. Print them in the bulletin for the next 12 weeks or post them on the sanctuary walls. Then create an impromptu interview during the announcements from now until your stewardship campaign kicks in this fall. Each Monday this summer I'll be posting 10 more for your use.

1. I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. - Martin Luther

2. This is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great. -Willa Cather

3. Your love has a broken wing it if cannot fly across the sea. - Maltbie Babcock

4. The parent who gives her child ten dollars for a movie and fifty cents for the Sunday School offering is teaching her a set of values that will carry her through a lifetime

5. Consecration is not giving to God, but taking hands off what belongs to God

6. Service is nothing but love in work clothes

7. Nothing worth devoting your life to can ever be accomplished in a lifetime

8. No one grows roses and cabbages for himself alone. You have to share to enjoy. - Chester Charles

9. When a man dies, he clutches in his hands only that which he had given away in his lifetime. – Rousseau

10. Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life. - Carrie Chapman Catt

 

Comments

[Trogdor]

If it helps Richard, I do take the long term approach. I'm a writer, I kind of have to.

God once put a thought in my mind "What will people say about you in one hundred years time?" Interesting thought.

[Richard]

"Nothing worth devoting your life to can ever be accomplished in a lifetime."

This quote speaks to me about more than a single program (like stewardship) - it is a glimpse of the eternal scope of the mission of the Church.

Here in Australia the Catholic Church would buy land in towns that did not yet exist, knowing that one day their children or grandchildren would use that land to build a Church.

I believe the hype that the evangelical Church went through regarding the 'End-times' (thankfully now dying out) has crippled our vision into one of valuing short term results over all else.

Our challenge is to give-build-sow a work whose legacy will impact not only the nations but the generations to come.

[Trogdor]

I like them all. Might take them to my next Connect Group meeting.