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A Closer Lookat the Offering

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Leading This Webinar

Ken Sloane, Director, Stewardship & Generosity

Blake Davis, Technical Specialist

Dr. L. Edward Phillips, Associate Professor of

Worship & Liturgical TheologyCandler School of Theology

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The Purpose, Pattern, & Character of Worshipby L. Edward Phillip

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As We Begin…

• This was planned before the pandemic.• 9 years talking changes use of money – impact on church

– Rise of electronic money and decline cash & checks• Past, present and future.• Still have time for questions!

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COVID-19 has spoken the last

word in the electronic

giving debate.

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Take a Closer look at Offering?

üHealth concerns about passing plates?üMeaning in plates that more often empty?üWhat is the offering God wants from us?üIs this the way we will fund ministry in future?

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YOU ARE THE

CONTEXT EXPERT.

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…we are in the midst of an interruption of

“the way we’ve always done it.”187

In case you haven’t noticed….

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Reprinted with permission of Dave Coverly/speedbump.com.

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The United Methodist ChurchFrom History of American Religion Project, public domain.

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How far back does our concern about the offering go?

Cain and Abel?

Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=300672

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The United Methodist ChurchPUBLIC DOMAIN

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1. Christians collected food (and probably money) as a regular part of the life of discipleship.

2. Christians used the ritual word offering for the Eucharist, and connected this with whole giving of their lives, including what they contributed to a collection of food and money.

A collection is distinct from an offering

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Pew Rental Chart from First Methodist

Episcopal ChurchEvanston, Illinois

in 1913

From Evanston FUMC historical archives.

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19th century Camp Meetings

Photos, public domain

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From Evanston FUMC historical archives.

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From the MEC, South Discipline, 1906

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“ Worship in the presentation of tithes and offerings, during or after which an Offertory may be rendered.”

The Doctrines and Disciplines of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1920, par. 72.

“Here, when convenient, may be sung an anthem: the offering also being received and reverently brought to the Minister, the congregation meantime rising; and it should be placed upon the Table with singing or prayer.”

The Doctrines and Disciplines of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1932, par. 511.

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Offering [The minister announces the offering with a standard line such as “Let us present our tithes and offerings to the Lord.”]Offertory [This may be a choral anthem. During the music, ushers come forward to receive the plates from the minister. They pass plates down pews moving toward the rear of the auditorium. Doxology [Congregation stands to sing as ushers process the plates to the front of the church and give the plates to the minister at the altar-table.]Prayer of Dedication [The minister turns to the table, lifts the plates, and says a prayer]

WHY SHOULD A COLLECTION

OF MONEY HAVE SO MUCH

RITUAL?

Here is a typical offering sequence in a Protestant worship bulletin:

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UM WORD AND TABLE I

“And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus

Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with

Christ’s offering for us...”

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Questions?

Thank You!

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