Does this sound like your church budget process at the end of the year?

You get last year's budget and go through with a committee line by line, maybe what we should spend next year?

Maybe you have a prayer?

But where's the word of God in this process?

When do the people hear what the small catacism says about giving?

And why we do it?

Contact us at LCMS Stewardship so that we can help you fix this process,

put the word of God first, and put your congregation on a good fitting.

LCMS.org slash Stewardship.

Lifeway recently did a survey among Protestant churchgoers on tithing.

It's still a popular idea, most Protestant Christians in America.

I think tithing is a good idea.

Not all of them do it, of course.

Well, does denominational affiliation make a difference?

How did Lutheran's fair in that survey?

And does church attendance make a difference?

Welcome back to Issues, et cetera.

I'm Todd Wilkin joining us to talk about the new survey on American Protestant churchgoers

and tithing pastor Heath Curtis.

He's pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Warden, Illinois

and Zion Lutheran Church in Carpenter, Illinois.

He's coordinator of Stewardship for the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod.

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