Healthy and appropriately compensated staff accelerates your mission.

Generosity: Readiness and liberality to give; a freedom from meanness and smallness of mind.

Generosity is the new evangelism. “The early church was strikingly different from the cutlure around it in this way – the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and praactically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.” – Tim Keller

Why should a church cultivate generosity? –Our God is generous –Generosity and generous people are winsome. –Produces life and energy –Produces more effective work and outcomes –Way more fun than living under the burden of scarcity. –Funds mission –Cheap and stingy are repulsive. –As a spiritual discipline, the intersection of faith and finance reveal hearts and move people forward

Boundaries as we talk –Live with budgets –Accountability –Reserves are non-negotiable –Policy matters

Generosity is much easier in abundance.

Staff turnover and mediocre people culture are expensive.

Infusing a generous culture –Personally generous leaders –External focus –Vision inspires generosity –Communication that aligns the heart of the giver –Make generosity normal –Build trust in leadership practices.

What chokes generosity? –Cheap, stingy leadership –Over-staffed –Mission diffusion –Marginal revenue –Excessive debt –Presumption on donors –Tools and professional development void

How do we determine what to pay staff? –Commit to quality staff environments –Free people to do ministry –Create clarity on what earns increased compensation –Use surveys, but as a secondary resource

Brad Leeper President and Principal Generis Twitter: BradLeeper