Stewardship Quotations III

Here's an idea: 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 bulletin for the next 10 weeks or post them on the sanctuary walls. Then create an impromptu interview during the announcements from now until your stewardship campaign kicks in this fall. Each Monday this summer I'll be posting 10 more for your use.

21. To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of people. - Abraham Lincoln

22. The gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me - James Russell Lowel

23. Whatever you do to the least of these my brothers you have done unto me.

24. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

25. A person of courage never needs weapons, but they may need bail. -Ethel Watts Mumford

26. Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking something is true to the extent that we act on it. - W.T. Purkiser

27. If you’re going to practice what you preach, you may have to put in some overtime.

28. The people who really want to do something find a way. All others find an excuse.

29. Faith that does nothing, costs nothing, suffers nothing - is worth nothing.

30. Change your programming from safe entertainment to risky, ministry-oriented activities. You don't test the resources of God until you undertake the impossible. - Seth Barnes