What is STEWARDSHIP?

Since my money is God’s money,

every spending decision I make is

a spiritual decision.

John Hagee.

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 Lockyer

Christian Biblical Scholar 

There are three conversions necessary:

the conversion of the heart, mind, and the

purse. 

Martin Luther.

A Christian shows what he is by

what he does with what he has. 

Anonymous 

Some people are willing to give the

Lord credit but no cash. 

Anonymous 

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 Alcorn

Source: The Treasure Principle

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 

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 

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 

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

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 

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

The world asks, How much does he give?

Christ asks why does he give? 

John Raleigh Mott.