Financial Meltdown in the Mainline?

Loren B. Mead

doi:10.5771/9781566995221

Financial Meltdown in the Mainline?

Published 1998

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doi.org/10.5771/9781566995221
ISBN print: 978-1-56699-197-1
ISBN online: 978-1-56699-522-1
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Zusammenfassung

Intentionally provocative, Alban founder and former president Loren Mead’s dynamic work sets out dramatic and compelling challenges for today’s churches. Mead chose the word "meltdown"-a strong term, indeed-very carefully and consciously. His clarion call urges congregations to direct attention to their dwindling financial resources and their unreliable fiscal practices, and to take major action now-or face disaster in the future. Mead addresses changing church giving patterns; the inconsistent ways congregations keep financial records; the lack of coordinated short- and long-range planning; the need for knowledge of sound financial techniques such as accounting for inflation; an over-reliance on "restructuring" to fix problems; and lack of defensive planning for operational costs.

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i–xiv Preface i–xiv
1–7 CHAPTER 1: Why the "Nuclear" Alarm? 1–7
8–32 CHAPTER 2: What's Visible to the Naked Eye 8–32
33–65 CHAPTER 3: Uncertainties in Our Future 33–65
66–80 CHAPTER 4: How Did We Get Here? 66–80
81–88 CHAPTER 5: Doubletalk about a Double Problem 81–88
89–110 CHAPTER 6: What, Then, Can We Do? 89–110
111–122 CHAPTER 7: The Heart of the Matter 111–122
123–126 CHAPTER 8: Money and Churches: Crisis or Opportunity 123–126
127–128 APPENDIX A: Guidelines for Endowed Congregations 127–128
129–132 APPENDIX B: Caught in the Financial Bind: Reflections on Clergy and Money 129–132
133–142 NOTES 133–142
143–144 BIBLIOGRAPHY 143–144

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