76: Discipling Believers in Lane 3

In our last podcast, we addressed the stewardship conversation with two segments of our congregations: those in financial crisis (Lane 1) and those who are making ends meet but not making real financial progress (Lane 2). We identified their needs for stability and clarity and discussed how we might disciple them toward those goals.

The stewardship conversation with folks in Lane 3 looks very different than the other two conversations, and it can be a bit daunting. Often as pastors and leaders, we fall into one of two patterns around engaging our Lane 3 believers with the stewardship conversation:

1. We avoid the conversation because we believe Lane 3 folks already know more about handling finances than we do; or
2. We pursue the conversation with the goal of increasing giving to the church.

Both of these approaches fall short of discipling our Lane 3 members and rob them of the opportunity to learn from God's Word and grow in their stewardship. Many of these folks may actually have the gift of giving but are not deploying that gift because they haven't been discipled in stewardship. So potential kingdom impact isn't realized and we leave our Lane 3 people without a vision for the joy that God may have in store for them.

Podcast host James Lenhoff shows us the importance of these conversations with Lane 3 believers and guides us in casting vision for personal discipleship and kingdom impact.

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This will be our last episode for a while. We are taking a break and don't know when we will return.