As we discussed in our last newsletter, stewardship involves every resource (time, talents, treasures, relationships, etc…) that God has entrusted to you. One area that your stewardship becomes easily visible to the world is your lifestyle; it’s where you put your beliefs and values into action as you use the resources given to you. In other words, it is where the rubber meets the road. As a result, good stewardship requires us to have a proper attitude and mindset about every aspect of our life.
The subject of lifestyle is probably the most difficult to address for at least five reasons. First, God’s Word does not specify a particular lifestyle to live. For example, while God’s Word warns us not to pursue wealth there is nothing
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As a result, many Christians have a wrong attitude about ownership. Fifth, our culture teaches that our lifestyle defines who we are based upon our material possessions, education, income, and even what we do for our hobbies and leisure time (many people will join a country club simply to impress others). As a result, we are in a constant race to stay ahead of the Joneses while the Joneses are in a race to stay ahead of us. Will Rogers said it well… “Too many people spend money that they do not have to buy things that they do not need to impress people they do not know.”
As we have stated, the foundational principle of stewardship is the fact that God owns everything. But does He really care how we use those resources? God’s Word tells us that He will provide for our needs (for example, Philippians 4:19), but how do we separate our needs from our wants? Is it safe to say that everything above what we need for our basic survival is a want? How do we define nonessential items? It is very easy to convince ourselves that what we want is really what we need; after all, doesn’t God want us to be comfortable and happy? In addition to these difficult questions, we are living in a constantly changing world. Today, a car is an essential item. What about other tech-gadgets such as cell phones (and the many options that can come with one), personal computers, I-pods, etc…? Where do we draw the line on what is essential and what is not nonessential; or can we?
Hart describes early Christians as a group of extremists, with an unrealistic set of priorities economically, civically, socially, and even in ways religiously. Hart goes into great detail of his evidence of this by examining the position of the first Christians on the accumulation of wealth. In his findings from the original koine Greek text, Hart points out that the idea that accumulating wealth is not inherently bad as long as we don’t abuse it is not, in fact, the position the first Christians had. While he did concede that modern Christian’s have come to understand this false idea as a “truism”, he points out that the original language and attitude of the first Christians towards
“An obsession with possessions enslaves us to the demon of worry. Jesus invites us to change our priorities, focus on the kingdom, and share with the needy” (Kraybill, 2011, p.101). A man’s wealth will be measured by the love, kindness and empathy he has for the poor and the hungry in Gods kingdom. For this matter Jesus wants the wealthy to humble themselves and receive their blessing by offering opportunities to the poor instead of being greedy and celebrating their own wealth.
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Caring for this earth is a duty of our faith and a way to respect God’s creations. Regardless of a person’s background, culture, or religious preferences, we are all called to protect the planet on which we live to preserve the future of the earth. As stewards and stewardesses called by God to share the responsibility for the future of the earth, we must work to protect all of creation for the sake of future
The ways I can practice stewardship in my life is by using my talents and the things God gave it to me and giving them back to someone or something they can use it. ways I can do that is just by helping someone else anything someone needs help quit or they can do on their own I can use the things I have and help them out. God has given everyone a talent that they can help out other people with and I think everyone should use their talent. Also it causes to be grateful for the talents that God has gave us because without them we wouldn't be able to help people out or even just have the talent to
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Money brings the inequality of possessions, also called “the haves and the have not’s.” We may all be equal in the eyes of God, but here on earth some eyes grow green with envy. Children come home from daycare complaining that Little Jimmy’s truck was bigger than his, husbands and fathers are forever eying the Jones; new corvette, and entire wars have erupted over the “you have it and I’m gonna get it” mentality. Inequality of possessions is not bad though many passages in the Bible teach that even in heaven there are different degrees of rewards. Even God’s spiritual gifts are not given equally to each of us, but this does not mean He loves one person more than the other. It is what we do with
Around the world in Christian and secular circles we hear the word stewardship. Not only is stewardship one of the basic issues discussed in scripture, but it’s also something we neglect as something we need to concentrate on while going through our own Christian walk. We live in a society that is very individualistic, concentrating on whatever will bring pleasure and make us feel good. Stewardship definitely doesn’t fit into the way society is today. Before going to far into this, what exactly is stewardship? Stewardship is taking care of or managing every God-given resource with an attitude of responsibility directing such resources for his intended purposes. To truly understand stewardship, we need to first look at what God says in his
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