Our Dedicated Spiritual Emphasis
Spiritual Exercises Booklets
at Hope - DeWitt, MI
Capital Funding Based on Spiritual Renewal
Your congregation will be spiritually renewed through a Wittenberg campaign. Our capital fundraising is actually based on spiritual renewal.
Wittenberg’s funding program is built on the powerful idea that God-pleasing offerings are brought about through personal and parish renewal in God’s Word and Sacraments. Wittenberg’s approach
is to guide the members of the parish through a period of spiritual self-assessment and recommitment to God’s word and sacraments in their lives before we even begin to speak of fund-raising. Our experience has taught us that there is no better way to conduct a God-pleasing campaign.
All capital campaign programs talk about spiritual renewal but Wittenberg makes it a priority. Even before anything is mentioned about financial commitments in the campaign, the congregation will have gone through a three-week program of spiritual renewal including a challenge to each member to make a pledge to increase their spiritual exercise.
Once a Wittenberg-led campaign is formally kicked off, the congregation begins a three-week period of intense spiritual renewal. (Click here to see the overview of our campaign and where the spiritual renewal phase fits.)
The Spiritual Renewal Pledge Process
During the Spiritual Phase of the campaign each member of your congreagtion will select one or more areas they pledge to improve from a list of 25 spiritual exercises. The campaign will include a booklet that describes each of the 24 spiritual exercises. Wittenberg has a stock set of spiritual exercises ranging from "paying closer attention to the sermon" to "reading through the book of concord in a year." The local pastor and the campaign Word and Sacramement Team will review the list and add or subract as they deem appropriate for the local setting.
After three weeks of sermons and Bible studies on spritual exercise based on the means of grace, each member will come forward in a solemn ceremony in the church service, bringing their spiritual pledge to the chancel.
Your congregation will be spiritually renewed through a Wittenberg campaign. Our capital fundraising is actually based on spiritual renewal.
Wittenberg’s funding program is built on the powerful idea that God-pleasing offerings are brought about through personal and parish renewal in God’s Word and Sacraments. Wittenberg’s approach
is to guide the members of the parish through a period of spiritual self-assessment and recommitment to God’s word and sacraments in their lives before we even begin to speak of fund-raising. Our experience has taught us that there is no better way to conduct a God-pleasing campaign.
All capital campaign programs talk about spiritual renewal but Wittenberg makes it a priority. Even before anything is mentioned about financial commitments in the campaign, the congregation will have gone through a three-week program of spiritual renewal including a challenge to each member to make a pledge to increase their spiritual exercise.
Once a Wittenberg-led campaign is formally kicked off, the congregation begins a three-week period of intense spiritual renewal. (Click here to see the overview of our campaign and where the spiritual renewal phase fits.)
The Spiritual Renewal Pledge Process
During the Spiritual Phase of the campaign each member of your congreagtion will select one or more areas they pledge to improve from a list of 25 spiritual exercises. The campaign will include a booklet that describes each of the 24 spiritual exercises. Wittenberg has a stock set of spiritual exercises ranging from "paying closer attention to the sermon" to "reading through the book of concord in a year." The local pastor and the campaign Word and Sacramement Team will review the list and add or subract as they deem appropriate for the local setting.
After three weeks of sermons and Bible studies on spritual exercise based on the means of grace, each member will come forward in a solemn ceremony in the church service, bringing their spiritual pledge to the chancel.
Scriptural & Lutheran Theology Makes a Remarkable Difference
Even when other programs do make use of scripture it is usually based on 1) personal sacrifice motivated by guilt or 2) based solely on joy. Both of these approaches are also usually missing a scriptural emphasis on the life-giving and faith-renewing power of the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Wittenberg Consulting is rooted in the scriptural and Reformation principle of properly distinguishing law and Gospel. With Wittenberg’s aproach, congregational members will be giving gifts to the Lord that grow out of humble repentance (the Law) that leads to confident faith based on God’s forgiveness in Christ the Gospel).
Wittenberg Offers Unique Spiritual Resources
Unlike programs Wittenberg includes training pamphlets that are yours as a part of the program. They include such
titles as “How Can I be More Spiritual?” “Giving to God - Guilt or Joy?,” “25 Spiritual Exercises,” “Luther Teaches his Barber how to Pray,” and “90 Days of Petitions for the Campaign.”
Parish Planning Based on Scripture, Not Sociology
Most parish planning consultants base their work on sociology. Wittenberg bases its work on Scripture. At the heart of all our consulting for parish planning is a short work by C. F. W. Walther, the founder of the LCMS, titled the "Duties of the Church." These duties are found in Scripture are not based on such secular themes as vision, mission and purpose.
Wittenberg Offers Unique Spiritual Resources
Unlike programs Wittenberg includes training pamphlets that are yours as a part of the program. They include such
titles as “How Can I be More Spiritual?” “Giving to God - Guilt or Joy?,” “25 Spiritual Exercises,” “Luther Teaches his Barber how to Pray,” and “90 Days of Petitions for the Campaign.”
Parish Planning Based on Scripture, Not Sociology
Most parish planning consultants base their work on sociology. Wittenberg bases its work on Scripture. At the heart of all our consulting for parish planning is a short work by C. F. W. Walther, the founder of the LCMS, titled the "Duties of the Church." These duties are found in Scripture are not based on such secular themes as vision, mission and purpose.
