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Why turn in a
commitment card?
Commitment Card Benefits
One of the goals for any initiative is 100%
participation from every household in our
church. We encourage you to prayerfully
consider completing a commitment card
for this campaign. This portion of the journal
is designed to help explain the significance
(practically and spiritually) of turning in a card.
A commitment card:
• Requires a decision over delay; action over
avoidance.
• Provides opportunity for personal (self)
assessment.
• Motivates a specific increase in one’s
generosity.
• Communicates the importance of personal
growth in giving — most important
decisions in life are confirmed in writing.
• Offers an occasion for a church-wide step
of faith and commitment (a growth event).
• Provides financial information that enables
leaders to make wise decisions.
• Enables church leaders to assess and
measure the congregational generosity.
• The card, from day-one, represents the
culmination of an important spiritual
journey. As important as everything
we do is, the card is all driving us to the
completion of the card.
• Provides a timeline for decision personally
and organizationally rather than an
undefined closure.
• A goal when written is much more likely
achieved than one that remains in the
head. A written commitment makes
it real, and provides a mechanism for
accountability.
This campaign is an opportunity for us to understand
the “why” of commitment cards in giver-centric
language, instead of church-centric language.
Emerging generations of Christians have less interest
in the needs of the finance committee to form a budget
for the church or the need “to keep the lights on and
pay the salaries.”
• What if we all thought of a commitment card in
terms of the spiritual check-up it could provide?
• What if we saw commitment cards as an
opportunity not to be missed to reassess one’s
gratitude to God?
• What if we saw commitment cards as a reminder
of the life-giving, family strengthening, and joy
from being in relationship with God’s abundance
entrusted to us?
Tools provided in this journal are helpful to help you to
think about ways to grow in your giving journey; not
just the amount of your gift from one year to the next.
We are inviting you to do this, not because of what we
want from you, but what we want for you.
