What is STEWARDSHIP?

1. What is STEWARDSHIP?

5. Since my money is God’s money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.John Hagee.

6. The story is told of a farmer who was known for his generous giving and whose friends could not understand how he could give so much and yet remain so prosperous. One day a spokesman for his friends said. "We canto understand you. You give far more than any of the rest of us and yet you always seem to have more to give." "Oh that is easy to explain," the farmer said. "I keep shovelling into God's bin and God keeps shovelling back into mine and God has the bigger shovel." Herbert LockyerChristian Biblical Scholar 

7. There are three conversions necessary: the conversion of the heart, mind, and the purse. Martin Luther.

8. A Christian shows what he is by what he does with what he has. Anonymous 

9. Some people are willing to give the Lord credit but no cash. Anonymous 

10. If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets He had entrusted - not given - to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.     Author: Randy AlcornSource: The Treasure Principle

11. The purpose of tithing is to secure not the tithe but the tither, not the gift but the giver, not the possession but the possessor, not your money but you for God. Anonymous 

12. All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now. John Selden 

13. Chesterton wrote, "There are two ways to get enough; one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less." How does this translate into our worship life as Christians? If thoughts of material things command the greater part of our attention and energy, can we really be serving and worshipping the Master as we should? I find that as I ascribe worth and honour to our loving and sovereign God, he allows me to desire less of the distractions, less of the other gods. But the struggle for the throne continues. Chip Stam

14. Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that is "finding his place in it," while really it is finding its place in him. (Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis

15. Givers can be divided into three types: the flint, the sponge and the honeycomb. Some givers are like a piece of flint - to get anything out of it you must hammer it, and even then you only get chips and sparks. Other are like a sponge - to get anything out of a sponge you must squeeze it and squeeze it hard, because the more you squeeze a sponge, the more you get. But others are like a honeycomb - which just overflows with its own sweetness. That is how God gives to us, and it is how we should give in turn. Anonymous 

16. Seek not great things for yourselves in this world, for if your garments be too long, they will make you stumble; and one staff helps a man in his journey, when many in his hands at once hinders him. William Bridge

17. The world asks, How much does he give? Christ asks why does he give? John Raleigh Mott.