TABLE DISCUSSION • (“Hands” debrief) What has God been teaching you lately? • (“Hands” debrief) Who did you explain the Learning Circle to this past week?
WEDNESDAY GATHERING STEWARDSHIP
WHAT IS A STEWARD • A Steward is a Manager
WHAT DO WE OWN? • Romans 11:36 For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.
WHAT DO WE OWN? • James 1:16 Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
WHAT DO WE OWN? • 1 Corinthians 4:7 7 For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
GROUP TIME • What have you been given to steward?
AREAS OF STEWARDSHIP • Task
AREAS OF STEWARDSHIP TASK • Genesis 1:26-27 26 Then God said,“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
AREAS OF STEWARDSHIP TASK • Genesis 2:15 15 The L ORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
AREAS OF STEWARDSHIP • Task • Treasures
AREAS OF STEWARDSHIP TREASURES • Haggai 2:8 ‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,’ declares the LORD Almighty. • Psalm 50:10 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
AREAS OF STEWARDSHIP TREASURES • Deuteronomy 8:17-18 "You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today."
AREAS OF STEWARDSHIP • Task • Treasures • Talents
AREAS OF STEWARDSHIP TALENTS • 1 Corinthians 12:4-7 4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. 7 T o each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
AREAS OF STEWARDSHIP TALENTS • 1 Peter 4:10 10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: • Psalm 139:13-14 13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
AREAS OF STEWARDSHIP • Task • Treasures • Talents • Time
AREAS OF STEWARDSHIP TIME • Psalm 139:16b in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. • Ecclesiastes 3:1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
WHAT IS A STEWARD • A Steward is a Manager • Genesis 1:28 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
WHAT IS A STEWARD • A Steward is a Manager • A Steward increases value to what he or she manages
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO BE FRUITFUL & MULTIPLY? • John 15:4-5 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO BE FRUITFUL & MULTIPLY? • Galatians 5:22-24 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
GROUP TIME • How can you steward what God’s given you in a way that bears fruit & multiplies?
REFLECTION • What topic(s) have been most valuable to you? Why? • What topic(s) could use more clarity for you? Explain • What topic(s) do you want/need to dig deeper into? Why? • Anything else to share? (Questions or Comments?)
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