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    Giving Up: How Giving to God Renews Hearts, Changes Minds, And Empowers Ministry
    Giving Up: How Giving to God Renews Hearts, Changes Minds, And Empowers Ministry
    Giving Up: How Giving to God Renews Hearts, Changes Minds, And Empowers Ministry
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    Giving Up: How Giving to God Renews Hearts, Changes Minds, And Empowers Ministry

    By David Roseberry

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    David Roseberry challenges churches to rethink everything they know about generosity,
    giving, and the gospel by drawing on powerful examples from the biblical record,
    from church history, and from the front lines of today’s culture wars.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateOct 2, 2017
    ISBN9780990509073
    Giving Up: How Giving to God Renews Hearts, Changes Minds, And Empowers Ministry

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      Giving Up - David Roseberry

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      INTRODUCTION

      This is not a book about how to get your church members to donate more money. Neither is it a book boosting weekly contributions. Those things will happen, undoubtedly, as a result of a strong culture of generosity. But those who are looking for ten easy steps to a bigger, better church budget will be disappointed. There aren’t ten steps to a stronger church. There aren’t five. There is only one step to the kind of church where vision and mission thrive and expand. And you are about to take that step. It may not increase the size of your church’s budget or your personal bank account, but it will surely increase the size of the heart of your church!

      In fact, put plainly, this book is about the one step we can all take to see our faith, our families, and our churches flourish in a postmodern, unbelieving world. What is the step? It is the title of this book: Giving Up. It is about giving up to God, about becoming a church filled with people who are teeming with generosity and eager to put their lives and faith forward for the sake of the

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