Week Four Action Item
This is the fourth of five action items for Sharing Our Blessings 2018. Once you have completed the Sunday reflection, considering the following:
- In this Sunday’s reflections, you saw the difference between the faithful servants, who took their master’s money, invested it, and returned everything to their master. Consider your time, talent, and treasure. Whose is it, ultimately? How will you be called to make an account of these things before God?
- Take the time to examine your finances over the past few years. What percentage of your annual income goes toward building up the local church, especially via parish offertory? Is it 1%? 5%? 10%? More? Write it down on a sheet of paper.
- Now think about the coming year. What would it look like for you to “stretch” when it comes to your offering to the parish? What if you were donating one hour's worth of your weekly income to your parish - along with one hour of your time in worship as a community and maybe one hour of volunteering? Write down that dollar amount next to the previous one. Is it a stretch? Should it be more? Only you can decide.
- Now act. Visit the parish’s online giving portal and consider making a 12-month commitment to a new offertory level that is meaningful and sacrificial to you, that helps you orient one more area of your life toward radical trust in God.
Watch for a reflection email next Sunday from your parish.