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 bu1letin for the next 11 weeks or post them on the sanctuary walls. Then create an impromptu interview during the announcements from now untili yur stewardship campaign kicks in this fall. Each Monday this summer I'll be posting 10 more for your use.
11. Charity is twice blessed - it blesses the
one who gives and the one who receives
12. There never was a person who did anything
worth doing who did not receive more than he gave. - Henry Ward Beecher
13. The greatest reward for serving others is
the satisfaction found in your own heart
14. Blessed are those who can give without
remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco
15. Shut your eyes... and what you see is what
you own. - George Hirst
16. People become attached to us not by virtue
of the services you render to them, but by reason of the services they render
to you. - Eugene Labiche
17. You can give without loving, but you
cannot love without giving. - Amy Carmichael
18. How can you give God anything when He owns
everything? But does He? The only present we can give -- our selves -- is the
best and highest worship that you and I can offer, and I am sure that it is
this above all that God most highly appreciates.- J. B. Phillips
19. The smallest things become great when God
requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great
when they are done for God, and when they serve to unite us with Him eternally.
- Fran腔is Felon
20. As long as I live, I will never appeal for
money for the mission of God in this world. This is a degradation of God and of
ourselves, which has pauperized us in every way over the centuries. God has no
need, and if the mission is God's, then we do not ask for help to give God a
boost; we do not appeal for funds. We allow people to take a share in God's
work, and this is a very different thing. - Stephen F. Bayne, Jr.
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