“Guilt is neither an effective way to encourage giving to the church, nor I might add, is it a Christian way. The New Testament is crystal clear about that. We Christians give to God and to the church, not because of what is required of us. Rather, we give in grateful and cheerful response to what God has given us.”
Albert G. Butzer III in Journal of Stewardship: Preaching Stewardship, ed. by Elizabeth Muir and Vincent Alfano (Indianapolis: ECSS, 1995) 20.