We encourage everybody to pick up a laminated card to put in the basket later. There are iPads in the back of the worship space where givers can slide their debit cards and sign with their fingers. Instead, we offer several modes of e-giving, including bank-to-bank electronic fund transfers and a suite of PayPal possibilities. When was the last time you met a young adult with a checkbook? Or cash on hand? We already know that we aren’t going to collect a bunch of handwritten checks and neatly folded twenties. We announce at the top of each Sunday worship service that the heart-shaped baskets (bought on clearance at World Market) will be coming through later on.
Pastoring traditional congregations for two decades was terrific preparation in some ways, but the difference is never more apparent than when my quirky-as-all-get-out community of belonging in Jesus’ name passes the offering plate.Īnd we do.
In planting a church for spiritual refugees-especially Bible Belt millennials who experienced the churches of their youth as boring, irrelevant, exclusive, and even painful-I’ve had to learn a lot of new things.
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