1. A Practical Plan for Generous Giving3
A Practical Plan for Generous Giving

2. Stewardship is not just another word for giving money.

3. How do you respond to opportunities... that may require effort?

4. Stewards = God’s VPs, Managers, Supervisors

5. Bad Steward Good Steward
Complains
Avoids
Negative Attitude
Little Faith

6. Bad Steward Good Steward
Complains
Avoids
Negative Attitude
Little Faith
Recognizes the opportunity
Willing to serve
Desire to succeed
Faithful

7. Personal goal for each member (steward) in the area of finances: Give more generously than in the past.

8. Plan for Generous Giving
Think like a godly steward

9. Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.
- I Timothy 6:17

10. Manage what God has provided Glorify God with its use
Christian Stewards:
Manage what God has provided
Glorify God with its use

11. Unbelievers’ Thinking
Steward Thinking
Unbelievers’ Thinking
Portion for God
Portion for Family
Portion for Society

12. Unbelievers’ Thinking
Steward Thinking
Unbelievers’ Thinking
Portion for God
Portion for Family
Portion for Society
Self produced wealth
Wealth serves self
Giving is a favor not a responsibility

13. Thinking like a steward leads to acting like a steward: Confidence / Humility / Self-Control

14. Plan for Generous Giving
Think like a godly steward
Act like a trusted manager

15. Trusted Managers: Follow the Biblical pattern for giving
Regular giving
Personal giving
Prepared giving
Proportional giving

16. See the welfare of the church as a personal matter
Trusted Managers:
Follow the Biblical pattern for giving
See the welfare of the church as a personal matter

17. Plan for Generous Giving
Think like a godly steward
Act like a trusted manager
Feel like a precious heir

18. The Blessings of Stewardship
Greater trust in God

19. The Blessings of Stewardship
Greater trust in God
Witness God’s providence

20. The Blessings of Stewardship
Greater trust in God
Witness God’s providence
Experience God’s grace more fully

21. Stewardship in the name of Christ for a short time here on earth prepares us for rulership with Christ in heaven forever.