Generosity gap: When it comes to giving, pastors and parishioners differ

Pastors and parishioners agree on charity as a prime tenet of their Christian faith, but when it comes to what motivates giving, there can be a philosophical generosity gap.
A new Barna Group study found unanimity when it comes to believing generosity is characterized by “an unselfish, sincere spirit, not from a sense of obligation or of self-interest,” researchers reported.However, while 66 percent of pastors declared that generosity is primarily a “response to Christ‘s