Stewardship In The Bible

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are. While your reputation is merely what others think you are.” -John Wooden.

Should people put the value of life into monetary value or should life be kept solely as an emotional quantity? People and societies throughout the ages have been trying to answer the problem of putting the value of life into terms of dollar bills. The ancient Egyptians buried their dead with all of their worldly belongings. They believed a person’s monetary worth on Earth was over, and they should take all of that earthly worth with them to the afterlife. Modern day Americans are different from the Egyptians. Today people believe that the families of the dead should be compensated for “their” loss.

Jessie Bernard’s, The Good-Provider Role: Its Rise and Fall, surprisingly begins with a reference to Psalm 23 and then pivots into the Israelites journey from Egypt to Canaan, thus depicting God as the original good provider. Subsequently the role of the second “great provider” was fulfilled by the mother, who according to Bernard was the known “gather, planter, and general factotum” (Bernard 1981:43). As depicted by the following chart, it is overwhelmingly evident that the woman’s role as the “good provider” superseded that

This book review is from the readings of Biblical Inspiration by Howard Marshall. The book is published by Regent College Publishing located in Vancouver, and British Columbia published the book in 2004. The book is braces around the interpretation of the Bible, and the inspiration of the Bible in our lives of today. There are many questions that are brought up the book, and these include: Is the Bible infallible? How do we interpret the Bible today? is its inspiration believable in and biblical criticism believable? All of the different opinions on biblical issues equivalent to these bring up issues and questioning within the community. It is Marshall’s goal to try and produce a statement that is concrete of what the Bible says in our lives today.

The safe guarding tendency that I choose was aggression. According to the authors of Theories of Personality, J. Feist, G.J. Feist, and Roberts (2013) says, “Safeguarding through aggression may take the form of depreciation, accusation, or self-accusation” (pg. 86). Out of the three deprecation stood out to me the most. Comparing a tendency in the Bible, the story of Joseph and his brother’s behavior towards him was a sign of aggression. They did not appreciate the love that their father showed Joseph. They hated Joseph and they hated the attention that their father gave to him. The dreams Joseph had and interpreted his brothers did not appreciate them. They had to do whatever it took to get rid of Joseph. Joseph brothers were jealous and

The two gospels, The Old Testament and The New Testament provide mirror images of Terrestrial Humans mentality Evolution and the comprehensive overview of the mental developmental trends over a span covering last five millennia. The Old Testament moral norms served in establishing a legal system with base in an absolute, irrevocable right of private ownership. Incontestable proof of continuous process of Evolution in this micro-segment of Spiral is an emergence of ‘The New Testament’, as a herald of a new mental era on the Earth, which naturally succeeds ‘The Old Testament’. Needless to remind, that The Old Testament also inspired adherents to vehemently follow the principle "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth", a total ‘defence of ownership’ “…based on the superstition or the illusion that one was ‘God 's chosen people’ and was superior to all ‘heathens’ ". (Quote from ‘Livets Bog’, Vol IV #1310)

When asked about how they characterize “biblical principles” the employee responses were varied and sometimes ambiguous. Of the few employees who were able to define what “biblical principles” signified to them, a common theme appeared. More than one employee referred to the biblical passage Mathew 7:12 the Golden Rule, roughly translated into “do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” Other illustrations were “doing the right thing” and “having faith in the people around you”.

After reading Harvey Nowlan’s blog post on stewardship as a Christian I have to agree with many of the points he was making about everything we own and consider our possessions in the material world, we own them to God. Our house, cars, bank account a many other things we treasure do not truly belong to us. Many lose site to this and take God’s grace out of the equation and forget who is really in charge. It is our duty, as Christians to be biblical stewards in everything we do and live in a way that Christ would want use to. We are like managers in a business and our resources should be used to exalt God and his kingdom. “ Our stewardship of the Christian faith is prior to and more important than any of the other things entrusted to our care.

Grudem, W. (2003). Business for the Glory of God: The Bible’s Teaching on the Moral Goodness of Business. Wheaton: IL: Crossway. ISBN: 978-1581345179.

This paper will explore what a Biblical Worldview is and present a Biblical Worldview process of contracts, ownership and responsibility.

Lessons from a Sheepdog: Comparing the Relationship Between the Shepherd and the Sheepdog to the Relationship Between God and Humanity.

Marina thanks for posting such a truthful and relatable post this week! I agree that this is all easier to type out and talk about than to actually use it in daily worklife. I feel that there are multiple things I can try to do at work to follow these principles more closely. For example, I feel that I can start to incorporate Biblical stewardship by my actions towards others as well as my work in itself. This can be easily done by having integrity in my work. I think often it is so easy to cut corners and while no one might see the impact until much later when it is found we have truly tarnished our image as a Christian. If coworkers are skeptical about God or religion and we present both in a negative image we are doing a large disfavor to

E-Waste Stewardship is a concept about how and why people have responsibility to take care for the commons. It is a theological belief that explains how humans should take care of all that God created for them. To understand the notion of stewardship we have to discover what Bible says about it. If we start with the first verse: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth”(Genesis1: 1) we see that God is the Creator and has the rights of ownership over all universes. In the Bible’s concept God is the Owner and man is his manager, his co-worker.

I know the biblical doctrine of stewardship defines a man’s relationship to God. It identifies God as owner and man as manager. God makes man His co-worker in administering all aspects of our life.

The life given by god has a very special meaning a value in which people sometimes forget to thank or either regret. Many students/adults believe that they are going to be popular if they have money and a good job buy forget that people are influenced by those who have learned something. Also a lot fail to remember, to earn value you must earn it.In today’s economy the government creates a value on the person by looking at the position they are held for. If you look at it from the society’s point of view they believe people should be given value according to what they do and what position they are. From an individual's perspective they judge themselves on what they accomplish and achieve.The value of the individual would