Leland's Seven Stewardship Principles — Church Stewardship Program

A partnership with Leland Rubin, creator of the Seven Stewardship Principles, and Allan Bell - CPA, CMA, MBA, Nsites founder and creator

Seven Principles Academy Back to NsitesDemo data

Digital workbook

The same workbook, completed online by many participants. Every submitted answer is compiled into one church score per principle, so leadership sees the church's shared view rather than one person's opinion.

Digital workbook OR-NM-1.0 (prototype) · compiled 2026-09-14

Demo data

Choose the workbook that fits your role

Available editions cover the 7 principles assigned to Sample Community Church and use the same Scripture, learning goals, exercises, evidence checks, assessment and 90-day plan. The participant edition is a study guide; the facilitator edition includes the teaching script and session guidance.

Participants assigned

16

Leadership, staff, ministry leads, members

Responses submitted

Healthy

13

81% response rate

Still open

Needs attention

3

2 in progress · 1 not started

Compiled church score

46

Weighted average of seven compiled principle scores

How the digital workbook works

Four steps, all inside Nsites. If you have not taken the leadership visibility survey yet, start there so the baseline ratings build on your blind spots.

  1. 1. Build the assignment

    Choose from the church's assigned principles, select who receives it, set the due date and decide how names appear in reporting.

    Assign participants
  2. 2. Participants answer

    Each person rates every area from 0 to 4 with a short note and an evidence check. Answers save as they go.

    Open response form
  3. 3. Answers are compiled

    Ratings are averaged per dimension, weighted, and rolled up to a score for each principle and one church score, with agreement shown.

    See compiled results
  4. 4. Teach the gaps and publish

    The lowest-scoring principles become the Academy teaching priority. Compiled scores flow into the printed workbook, board pack and action plans after leadership approval.

    Teach in the Academy

Assignments

An assignment is one round of the digital workbook issued to a named group of participants.

Seven Principles Baseline — Sample Community Church, Fall 2026

Baseline · 7 currently assigned principles · opens 2026-08-24 · due 2026-09-14

Leadership, staff, ministry leads and four member representatives

Open

Rate each area from what you actually see today, not from what the church intends. Where you are unsure, choose the lower rating and say why in the note box. Your individual answers are visible to Leland Rubin as coach; church reporting shows compiled scores.

Name handling: Named to coach only. Reminders: Weekly reminder while a response is unfinished (prototype — no message is sent).

Foundation Principles 90-day check-in

Reassessment · 3 currently assigned principles · opens 2026-12-01 · due 2026-12-15

Leadership and staff only

Draft

Short re-rating of the three Foundation principles after the first 90-day action plan.

Name handling: Named to leadership. Reminders: Single reminder three days before the due date (prototype).

Compiled score by principle

Compiled score comes from participant answers. The coach column is the rating recorded in the printed workbook, so leadership can see where the two views differ.

46of 100

Compiled church score

At risk

Compiled results awaiting leadership approval before distribution

PrincipleStewardship areaCompiledCoachResponsesAgreement
S1Build Financial Literacy485013Wide disagreement
S2Build a Financial Reserve475013Some disagreement
S3Eliminate High-Cost Liabilities454513Wide disagreement
S4Cultivate Generosity Through Giving545513Wide disagreement
S5Invest in Future Ministry474513Some disagreement
S6Provide for Your Pastors' Wellbeing414513Wide disagreement
S7Give Generously424513Wide disagreement

Privacy and limits

  • Individual answers are held for the coach. Church reporting, board packs and the printed workbook show compiled scores and themes only.
  • Prototype: responses live in this browser session only. No invitations, emails or text messages are sent, and nothing is written to a server.
  • Compiled results are marked "Compiled results awaiting leadership approval before distribution" until Leland Rubin and church leadership approve distribution.