As we said before, this is very much a spiritual indicator of our faith, our focus, and our generosity, not to mention our view of the Lord's work in the next year. A budget is a wonderful tool to regulate the monetary affairs of the church, to provide a guideline for wise expenditures, and to ask ourselves how we are doing in certain areas. We sometimes sell His people short by not giving them the opportunity to give extra when an extraordinary opportunity arises. Please feel free to copy it and modify it for your own needs. You usually don't get to hear about it.
Spiritual leadership is more than leadership exercised in a church setting.
Diotrophes shows us that in III John 9-12. Jesus makes that clear in Matthew 23. If I had to summarize that dynamic in one sentence, this would be it. Because of his love for Jesus, the spiritual leader cares more for others than he cares for himself. The box of secular leadership is hierarchy, power, control, position, authority, status, and the like.