Stewardship
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First Sentence- Few subjects are more taboo than money. We just don’t talk about it.
First Sentence- Few subjects are more taboo than money. We just don’t talk about it.
What Does it Risk If they Fail to Hear from me?
What Does it Risk If they Fail to Hear from me?
Money and resources are ours but they are only ours on loan. We will never learn to enjoy them unless we partner with God to use his creation has he intended.
Stewardship is an invitation to join God as we use his resources to experience God, serve others, and enjoy creation.
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Transition- if stewardship is so helpful- if it keeps us from throwing our hands up...
Transition- if stewardship is so helpful- if it keeps us from throwing our hands up...
What am I asking them to do?
What am I asking them to do?
Main idea- develop a rule of life for your time and your money that helps you be a follower of Jesus who uses creation not abuses, and uses what they’ve accumulated to serve others.
Without a plan we aren’t sure what’s a win
4 Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked, but those who heed it resist them. 5 Evildoers do not understand what is right, but those who seek the Lord understand it fully.
Develop a Rule of life for your money
What’s important to you?
Paying for your kids college or having great experiences with your kids
Don’t develop a rule of life without asking What am I doing to give back?
Develop a Rule of life for your time
Dream- listen to the life that the Biblical writers describe
26 the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field. 27 You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed your family and to nourish your female servants.
Commentators have wondered if this is painting such a beautiful picture of pastoral life if its saying everyone should leave the city and live in the country.
Spend time in silence and solitude asking Jesus- in 5 years if I could be doing anything I want and know it wouldn’t fail, what you I do?
Throw away your television
What are you doing to give back?
Why Won’t they do it?
Why Won’t they do it?
Rule of Life- sounds legalistic
Plans are nice- but get real, my life is too crazy for a plan
I don’t plan and I’m fine trellis and the vine
I’m a single mom-
Next Steps
Next Steps
We learn in community- relational poverty
Dead Dog Story
Dead Dog Story
Last Sentence- God has entrusted us with resources how will we use them?
Last Sentence- God has entrusted us with resources how will we use them?