Rethinking How We Talk About Money In Church

We’ve inherited a lot of baggage from ministers who abused the topic, and institutions who insisted ministers leave money matters to the trustees, as if it isn’t a spiritual conversation. And when an urgent expense arrives, it can be difficult to see beyond the amount we need and the time we have to raise it and the way we’ve always done it. Yet these conversations bring us into some of the most consequential territory of our lives: what we value, what we trust, what we hope for, and what we are willing to commit ourselves to.