Durall, Michael, Beyond the Collection Plate

(Nashville, TN, Abingdon Press, 2003), 152 pages, paperback, $16.00.  (Obtain from Abingdon Press, PO Box 801, 201 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37202 or www.abingdonpress.com.)

This book offers a very practical look into a biblical approach to stewardship and money. This is not a book about fundraising. You will not find any helpful tactics or gimmicks that will help you raise more money.  What you will find is the secret to having all the money the church needs. One of the most helpful things about the book is that the author is constantly contrasting the differences between how mainline and emerging churches handle the issue of money.  Church leaders wanting to prepare for the stewardship of money in the new world will find this a helpful read.