You want your church to be generous—you just aren’t sure how to get there without every money conversation feeling like a fundraising appeal. Maybe you’ve tried a stewardship series. Maybe you’ve watched a campaign come and go without the culture really shifting. The problem usually isn’t that your people don’t care—it’s that generosity has been treated as a giving issue rather than a discipleship issue.
You want your church to be generous—you just aren’t sure how to get there without every money conversation feeling like a fundraising appeal. Maybe you’ve tried a stewardship series. Maybe you’ve watched a campaign come and go without the culture really shifting. The problem usually isn’t that your people don’t care—it’s that generosity has been treated as a giving issue rather than a discipleship issue.
This course gives you a clear framework for changing that: five marks that describe what a genuinely generous church actually looks like, drawn from Scripture and backed by research on why people give—and why they don’t. If you’ve been looking for a way to talk about money that feels pastoral instead of transactional, this is it.
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Randy Frazee is a pastor, author, and longtime church leader best known for his work on spiritual formation, Scripture engagement, and community. He served as senior pastor of Westside Family Church in Kansas City and has spent decades helping congregations move from surface-level faith to deep discipleship—including building one of the most robust financial formation cultures in the country through initiatives like Margin KC. He is the author of more than ten books, including The Heart Physical and Think, Act, Be Like Jesus, and is the co-author of The Story with Max Lucado.
Plan for an hour to an hour and a half to go through each session, especially if you’re going through the content in a group. The videos in this course range from 11 to 14 minutes, and the discussion questions and activities will likely take up the rest of your meeting time.
This course is 5 sessions long. Feel free to cover the sessions in increments that make the most sense for you and your leadership team. For some, it might work best to go through one session a week, for others it might be better to cover one session a month. We do not recommend doubling up on sessions.
In its 40-year history, Barna Group has conducted more than two million interviews over the course of thousands of studies and has become a go-to source for insights about faith and culture, leadership and vocation, and generations. Barna Group has worked with thousands of businesses, nonprofit organizations and churches across the U.S. and around the world.
Barna is an independent, privately held, nonpartisan organization based in Dallas, Texas, with offices in Nashville, Tennessee; Ventura, California; and Atlanta, Georgia.
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