Kivi, author of Kivi’s Nonprofit Communications blog, cracks down on boring business meetings and attacks ridiculous income/expense reporting habits of countless organizations (including churches).

“You raised money and you spent it. So what? What do your income and expenses tell us about your values, your decision-making, and your impact?”

Are you prepared to show people in the pew the Kingdom difference you are making with the money they have given?

Stress about this answer. Spend hours rehearsing it in front of the bathroom mirror.

It must be articulated with a sense of clarity and precision that leaves no room for doubt that their return on ministry investment is beyond their wildest imaginations. If you don’t, then you’ll break trust with your people, your most prized asset (and God’s intended vehicle for funding the work of the church).

The consequence?  They will naturally begin to pay closer attention to the MILLIONS of other organizations looking to them (the person who sits in YOUR pew) for funding, too.