STEWARDSHIP

Proper management of God-given resources

Definition of Terms
Stewardship
Is the careful and responsible
management of something entrusted to
ones care.
Steward
Is someone who actively manages
something that is not his/her own, but
continues to enjoy it because it was
entrusted to his/her care.

The earth is the Lords and everything in it,

the world, and all who live in it.
(Psalms 24:1)
We are responsible as GODs stewards to
properly manage the things he has given
us.

Areas Where We Need to

Apply
Good Stewardship

1. Time

3 Time Frames
Yesterday
Today
Tomorrow

4 Steps to Make the Most of Our

Time
1.

Plan long range

2.

Schedule your time

3.

Follow your schedule

4.

Multiply your time

2. Talents

 Talents
Talents

must be enhanced.

were not given to us by our

Creator to magnify ourselves.

As each has received a gift, use it to

serve one another, as good stewards
of God's varied grace

*1st Peter 4:10

3.Treasures/Money/Childr
en

Is MONEY evil?
No, but the love of it is.

Principles of Biblical
Stewardship
1.

Give back what belongs to the Giver

2.

Give yourself to God

3.

Give after Jesus example

4.

Give proportionately

5.

Give to equalize

Principles of Biblical
Stewardship
6. Give with a cheerful heart
7. Give as God enables us to do so
8. Give according to the
Law of Sowing and Reaping
9. Give because of Spiritual returns
10. Give to glorify the Giver

Children
Children are gifts from God.
It is the primary responsibility of the
family to nurture & train them on
conduct and character.

Train up a child
in the way he should go
and when he is old
he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6

4. Temple

Temples
Physical

body
1 Corinthians 6:19
Do you not know
that your bodies are temples
of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom
you have received from God?
You are not your own;

Temples
Home
Office/Workplace
Community

(profession)

5. Truth

What is truth?
Who holds the truth?

Jesus Christ said,

I am the way, the TRUTH and
the life.

*John 14:6

6. Team

Team effort saves time and makes the

work less stressful. Likewise, it
increases the level of performance and
provides greater productivity.
Teamwork breaks down factionalism
and division within the workplace.

Principle of Synergism
A creative cooperation where
differences are explored to experience
a common or desired result.

7. Timber

1950s of the archipelago was covered

with forests.
1960s of the archipelago was covered
with trees
1972 of the archipelago had woods.
1988 only 1/8 of the archipelago was
forested and only a tiny fraction of
this
was virgin.
- DENR (1991)

So you could just imagine the

state of our forests today

Familiar?

Familiar?

PLANT TREES!
NO to illegal logging! NO to greed!
Think of the next generation.

8. Trash

Proper Waste Disposal

1.

Segregate biodegradable from nonbiodegradable

2.

Recycle

Plastic bottles were used to build a

school in San Pablo, Laguna

8 Areas Where We Need to

Apply Good Stewardship
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Time
Talents
Treasure/Money/Children
Temple
Truth
Team
Timber
Trash

From everyone who has been

given much, much will be
demanded; and from the one
who has been entrusted with
much, much more will be asked.
Luke 12:48