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STEWARDSHIP MINISTRIES
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Mission Statement:
RAISE STEWARDS
Biblical Stewardship Teaches:
• God owns everything
• God has given us responsibility to manage His resources
• As stewards we are accountable
The Sense of Stewardship
• Money is a test – If therefore ye have not been faithful in the
unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s who shall give you that which is your own?
– Luke 16:11,12
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OBJECTIVE:
Provide service to pastors, local churches, and individuals
regarding Biblical principles of finance
STEWARDSHIP MINISTRIES
• 85% Pastors feel they have never been equipped to teach Biblical Principles of Finance
• 90% Have no plan or program to teach stewardship
• Satanic Conspiracy of Silence
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• Our need to give far exceeds the Church’s need for money
• Meet the need for the person in the pew
SREWARDSHIP MINISTRIES
• Four Overlapping Groups with Needs
• Deep trouble, over-extended, pressure
• Seem OK, but a paycheck from disaster
• Affairs “wisely”, but not God-honoring
• God-honoring with significant resources
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• Effective stewardship education with the focus on the spirituality of the individual
• Raise an awareness of tithing that releases our people
STEWARDSHIP MINISTRIES
• The Tithe is the Historic Benchmark
• Gives a Release not found in any other form of Christian obedience
• Free from materialism, worry, anxiety, pride
• Brings all under the Lordship of Jesus
STEWARDSHIP MINISTRIES
• Encourage wills and trusts
• Provide a spiritual guardian for minor children
• Ask ourselves why God has provided more than enough
STEWARDSHIP MINISTRIES
Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the furstfruits of all thine increase:
So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Proverbs 3:9.10
STEWARDSHIP MINISTRIES
1. Our substance is our wealth, assets, houses, land, retirement funds, our stuff
Most 401k, 403b, IRA funds have never been tithed or taxed
TITHE THE ESTATE
CHURCH THE BENEFICHARY
STEWARDSHIP MINISTRIES
2. And with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
First means First, before deductions
Increase may not be income
STEWARDSHIP MINISTRIES
Increases not included in income:
• housing, utilities
• car
• scholarship
• health insurance
• employment security
STEWARDSHIP MINISTRIES
• PLENTY!
• How much in account? Plenty!
• How much does it pay? Plenty!
• How much in retirement fund? Plenty
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• Encourage wills and trusts
• Provide Resources– Speakers’ List– Stewardship Manual
The Sense of Stewardship
By God’s Grace Resolve To:• Give the Historic Benchmark, the TITHE
• Move from NET to GROSS TITHE
• Move UP a Level in Giving
• Share the JOY of Faithful Stewardship
The Sense of Stewardship
When this sense of stewardship settles into our very soul,
we arise with a fire in us
The Sense of Stewardship
• Creates a resolve in our heart to never
disappoint our Lord
• Creates a spirit of faithfulness and
commitment in us
• Drives us to be faithful out of gratitude
not fear
The Sense of Stewardship
• God owns everything
• God has entrusted His resources to me
The Sense of Stewardship
• Money is a testimony– Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God
bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; how that in a great trail of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; Praying us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. And this they did, not as we hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God
– II Corinthians 8:1-5
The Sense of Stewardship
Moreover it is required of stewards, that a man be found faithful
1 Corinthians 4:2
The Sense of Stewardship
•Money is a tool–If we love God, we can use money
The Sense of Stewardship
• The Tithe is:– the starting point
– the minimum
– the spring board
– the historic benchmark
The Sense of Stewardship
• Matthew 23:23
–Ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgement, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
The Sense of Stewardship
Jesus brought tithing up into the company of the weightier matters,
mercy, justice, and faithfulness
The Sense of Stewardship
No one is too poor to give
• 3 LEVELS OF GIVING
Should
Could
Would
The Sense of Stewardship
The Sense of Stewardship
SHOULD GIVE LEVEL
is the tithe
COULD GIVE LEVEL
is sacrificial giving
The Sense of Stewardship
When we limit our lifestyle and give God the excess
we move into the
WOULD GIVE LEVEL
The Sense of Stewardship
• We must first give ourselves to the Lord
• Grace causes giving to go before the need
The Sense of Stewardship
Grace takes giving to
new heights