Leadership Is Stewardship

1. The principle of ownership.

Psalm 24:1 KJV 1900

1 The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein.

Psalm 24:1 HCSB

1 The earth and everything in it, the world and its inhabitants, belong to the Lord;

Genesis 1:2 NKJV

2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Genesis 1:9 NKJV

9 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.

1 Corinthians 6:19 AV

19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

Amos 3:3 AV

3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

2. STEWARDSHIP

Steward—was someone entrusted with the management of someone else’s affairs

Joshua 24:15 AV

15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Joshua 24:15 HCSB

15 But if it doesn’t please you to worship Yahweh, choose for yourselves today the one you will worship: the gods your fathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my family, we will worship Yahweh.”