This document discusses the importance of stewardship and exercising faith through generosity. It emphasizes that how we view God is most important and will determine whether we have faith to invest in God's mission. The document also provides Calvary Church's budget breakdown, showing most funds go towards staff and missionaries, and notes the church is currently short of funds needed. It encourages readers to increase giving by $10 per month to meet the shortfall and support God's work.

1. Stewardship:
It’s a Matter of
Character

3. Where the Rubber
Meets the Road
• To understand that faith has
high currency to our Lord
Jesus and is exercised by
investing in God’s mission.
• To be persons who steward
our times, treasures and
talents for the Kingdom of
God at Calvary because we
will understand the
connection between
exercising faith, generosity
and mission.

5. If we don’t know God’s Character
… then we don’t have the faith to
invest in what’s on His heart.
“Nothing reveals more forcefully
one’s true view of God than the
quality of one’s imaginings.”
Janine Langan
“What comes into our minds
when we think about God is
the most important thing
about us.”
A. W. Tozer

6. “Parable
of the
Bags of
Gold”
Matthew 25

9. He exercised no faith
Entertained no generosity
Engaged in no mission or
investment

10. “What comes into our
minds when we think
about God is the most
important thing about
us.”
A. W. Tozer

11. “Let not the wise boast of their wisdom
or the strong boast of their strength
or the rich boast of their riches,
but let the one who boasts boast about this:
that they have the understanding to know me,
that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness,
justice and righteousness on earth,
for in these I delight,” declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 9: 23, 24

12. Good and Faithful:
Consider the “Spiritual ROI”
Think of all the people who
have invested in You...

13. “Every Budget is a
moral document.”
Jim Wallis

14. Budgeted Expenses for 2013:
• $268,130 or @ 66% of total budget = People
 Six full time & part time Staff
 Seven Missionaries from Calvary.
• $61,050 or @15% of budget is for “Initiatives” - ministry
with people.
• $37,000 or @ 9% is for Administrative support.
• $25,300 or @ 6% is for where we, the people of God
congregate.
• 15,000 or @ 4% is for Equipment & Building
Improvements.

15. How have we been doing in 2013?
• 2013 Budget
$406,480.00
2013 Actuals as of June 30
$203,240 is what we
needed to stay on pace
$186,407.53 is what we gave
This is @ $1000/month short

16. How have we been doing in 2013?
• 2013 Budget
$406,480.00
2013 Actuals as of June 30
$203,240 is what we
needed to stay on pace
$186,407.53 is what we gave
This is @ $1000/month short
• To meet this shortfall, it would mean that 200 of us give
$10/month more than we “normally” give.

17. Where
the Rubber
meets
the Road:
“What comes into our
minds when we think
about God is the most
important thing about
us.”
A. W. Tozer

18. “I received from the Lord what
I pass on to you - that on the
evening that Jesus was
betrayed, He took bread and
gave thanks…”

19. “A [person] by his sin may
waste himself, which is to
waste that which on earth is
most like God. This is man's
greatest tragedy and God's
heaviest grief.” A. W. Tozer

20. Justin Martyr
@ 155 A.D.
“We who once took most
pleasure in the means of
increasing our own wealth and
property now bring what we
have into a common fund and
share with everyone in need;
we who hated and killed one
another and would not
associate with men of
different tribes because of
their different customs, now
after the manifestation of
Christ live together and pray
for our enemies…”