https://store.upperroom.org:443/contributors/roger-curlessRoger Curlesshttps://store.upperroom.org:443/product/connectional-living-and-connectional-giving<p>This PDF leader’s guide is a required resource for a Lay Servant Ministries (LSM) advanced course. It supplements the book <em>Earn. Save. Give.: Wesley’s Simple Rules for Money</em> (Abingdon Press; 2015) by James A. Harnish, as well as the free resource The United Methodist Church Handbook (2017–20), <em>Therefore Go: Making Disciples for the Transformation of the World </em>(available from UM Communications).</p> <p>This LSM advanced course focuses on the following:</p> <div style="margin: 5px 20px;"> <ul> <li>an understanding of John Wesley’s admonitions—to earn, save, and give all you can;</li> <li>various scriptures and how they relate to our connectional living, which leads to connectional giving and connecting to Wesley’s teachings;</li> <li>the ways in which an understanding of why we give and where we invest our resources is imperative to living our faith through the United Methodist connectional system;</li> <li>an understanding of the apportionment structure through the general church, jurisdictions, annual conferences, and districts, and how that relates to the local church and decisions made in the local church;</li> <li>understanding and being able to make a presentation on how living in connection as part of God’s creation leads us to giving in support of mission/ministry in that connection; and</li> <li>training for Lay Servants to present the connectional giving story to groups in their congregation and other congregations in support of district superintendents.</li> </ul> </div>Wed, 18 May 2022 20:27:04 GMThttps://store.upperroom.org:443/product/connectional-living-and-connectional-giving