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    Guidelines Finance: Handling God's Money in the Church
    Guidelines Finance: Handling God's Money in the Church
    Guidelines Finance: Handling God's Money in the Church
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    Guidelines Finance: Handling God's Money in the Church

    By Cokesbury

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    The goal of the ministry of finance is to fund ministries that nurture persons in their faith. The finance system in the congregation will raise, manage, and disperse the funds of the congregation that help realize the mission and vision of the church. This Guideline is designed to help equip you in leading this ministry group in your congregation.




    This is one of the twenty-six Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2017-2020 that cover church leadership areas including Church Council and Small Membership Church; the administrative areas of Finance and Trustees; and ministry areas focused on nurture, outreach, and witness including Worship, Evangelism, Stewardship, Christian Education, age-level ministries, Communications, and more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCokesbury
    Release dateNov 15, 2016
    ISBN9781501829673
    Guidelines Finance: Handling God's Money in the Church

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      Guidelines Finance - Cokesbury

      Blessed to Be a Blessing

      If you are reading this Guideline, you have said yes to servant leadership in your church. You are blessed to be a blessing. What does that mean?

      By virtue of our baptism by water and the Spirit, God calls all Christians to faithful discipleship, to grow to maturity in faith (see Ephesians 4). The United Methodist Church expresses that call in our shared mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world (The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church, or the Discipline, ¶120). Each local congregation and community of faith lives out that call in response to its own context—the wonderful and unique combination of God-given human and material resources with the needs of the community, within and beyond the congregation.

      The work of servant leaders—your work—is to open a way for God to work through you and the resources available to you in a particular ministry area, for you are about God’s work. As stewards of the mysteries of God (see 1 Corinthians 4:1), servant leaders are entrusted with the precious and vital task of managing and using God’s gifts in the ongoing work of transformation.

      In The United Methodist Church, we envision transformation occurring through a cycle of discipleship (see the Discipline, ¶122). With God’s help and guidance, we

      •reach out and receive people into the body of Christ,

      •help people relate to Christ through their unique gifts and circumstances,

      •nurture and strengthen people in their relationships with God and with others,

      •send transformed people out into the world to lead transformed and transforming lives,

      •continue to reach out, relate, nurture, and send disciples . . .

      Every ministry area and group, from finance to missions, engages in all aspects of this cycle. This Guideline will help you see how that is true for the ministry area or group you now lead. When you begin to consider all of the work you do as ministry to fulfill God’s mission through your congregation, each task, report, and conversation becomes a step toward transforming the world into the kingdom of God.

      Invite Christ into the process to guide your ministry. You are doing powerful and wonderful work. Allow missteps to become learning opportunities; rejoice in success. Fill your work with the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23).

      God blesses you with gifts, skills, and experience. You are a blessing when you allow God to work through you to make disciples and transform the world. Thank you.

      (Find additional help in the Resources section at the end of this Guideline, in The Book of Discipline, and through http://www.umc.org.)

      Offer H.O.P.E.

      One of the key ways we develop new leaders is through the core process for carrying out our mission, as stated in ¶122 of The Book of Discipline:

      We make disciples as we:

      •proclaim the gospel, seek, welcome and gather persons into the body of Christ;

      •lead persons to commit their lives to God through baptism by water and the spirit and profession of faith in Jesus Christ;

      •nurture persons in Christian living through worship, the sacraments, spiritual disciplines, and other means of grace, such as Wesley’s Christian conferencing;

      •send persons into the world to live lovingly and justly as servants of Christ by healing the sick, feeding the hungry, caring for the stranger, freeing the oppressed, being and becoming a compassionate, caring presence, and working to develop social structures that are consistent with the gospel; and

      •continue the mission of seeking, welcoming and gathering persons into the community of the body of Christ.

      To better remember and understand the core process as written in ¶122, think in terms of H.O.P.E.—Hospitality, Offer Christ, Purpose, and Engagement. Through these discipleship paths of H.O.P.E., new disciples are made and sent out to reach even more people to bring into the body of Christ. We go into the world through outreach and mission, offering hope through proclamation of the gospel, seeking, welcoming, and gathering, as we offer hospitality to those not yet in the body. We offer Christ by providing opportunities for people to commit their lives to God through baptism by water and Spirit and profession of faith. We nurture people in Christian living to help them find a true sense of purpose in life, learning what it means to live out their belief through acts of piety and acts of mercy, Christian conferencing, regular participation in the sacrament of Holy Communion, and other means of grace. Through engagement, we send out these grace-filled followers of Jesus Christ who are putting their faith into action, helping to transform the surrounding community and offering hospitality in the name of Jesus Christ. Thus H.O.P.E. cycles back around.

      Ask yourselves and the leadership of your congregation how your church might become a place of hope. Whether your church is small, medium, or large, it is essential to have an intentional discipleship system like H.O.P.E. in place. No matter which system you decide to use, the components of the core process should be established in every local church as we make disciples and develop leaders to accomplish the church’s mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. After all, it’s all about hope.

      Part One: Getting Started—Your Ministry in Finance

      The ministry of the committee on finance is to nurture the financial vitality of the congregation. This is a comprehensive

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