How to create a giving culture

By Stuart Keir

• Give well yourself – without you doing it, it ain’t a culture .

• Be seen giving at every offering – standing orders are essential, but you need to be seen leading.

• Cheer when the opportunity to give comes – God loves a cheerful giver. 

• Make a big deal of giving – people exchange their lives for money, make it important.

• Bin the bags – use buckets or plates or a policeman’s hat…. anything that is wide and open encourages good giving.

• Explain biblical giving principles – point to the bible, you know it makes sense.

• Tell stories of when you gave and then God gave to you –  you don’t have any? Then give in the way that gets you some!! 

• Give as a youth group – then let them see the effects of you giving.

• Allow your young people to see their wealth in the light of others poverty – real worldview perspective is vital in releasing us to give.

• Giving is serving, worshiping, time and energy – allow your young people to give alongside you in all of these things.