Are you becoming the person you want to be? Make a stewardship budget every year, and then review it each month to see how you are doing. Hopefully you already include treasure in your financial budget. Just as you would sit down and plan out a budget, you need to sit down and plan a stewardship budget of your time and talent. Here are some tips to get you started in that process. You must get to know yourself and understand your talents so that you know how you can reasonably give of yourself and in what ways. You need to really plan and prepare yourself for that type of lifestyle. I don’t believe that you can wake up one day and decide that you want to become a more generous person. What is the point of acquiring stuff and being the best? I hope my children will remember me because I am a good person, not because I have money or talent. Humans are naturally materialistic because we live in such a tangible world.īut when I truly think about it, it seems that all my efforts are worthless. Sometimes I get very consumed with acquiring stuff, especially in our society where many people are addicted to things like consumer electronics. When you give, know you are doing something good and worthy. If you lack joy, you are only giving out of obligation. Not only will you receive joy, but also all those who benefit from your gift will feel joy as well. If you give your time, money, or talent with an open heart, you will experience joy. Even when it comes to your finances, consider fitting giving into your monthly budget. At home, serve your family by putting them first: help out with chores (even the ones you’re not assigned on the weekly house cleaning schedule), support others emotionally, and always say thank you. At the mall, let the mother with the crying baby cut in line at checkout. At work, volunteer to do a task that no one else wants to do (this is a good way to get a raise or job promotion anyway). Whether you are at your workplace, church, the mall, with your family, or out somewhere in your community, a good steward gives. What Are The Characteristics Of Being A Good Steward? Whether you believe you received them from a higher power or more basic human circumstance, you are a unique individual with your own special set of skills and talents that can be used to help others. A good steward dedicates some of his or her spare time in order to do good.īy giving of our treasure, talent, and time, we are good stewards of what we are so fortunate to have received.
After all, we live only briefly in this world, and our possessions won’t come with us when we leave.
If you are responsible with these blessings, it means that you care for and share them with others.Īlthough stewardship is generally a religious term, I believe all people can live a life of stewardship. Your blessings could include your talents, time, or financial freedom.
However, I describe it as a responsibility for any blessings you may have. There are various intentions of the word stewardship. Their response was, “You sound perfect for the Stewardship Committee!” And my reply was, “Stewardship…what’s that?” What Is Stewardship? I told them about my predicament, and explained how firmly I believed in giving of my time. As I walked around, someone came up to me and asked me what I was looking for. I was brought up to believe that giving of one’s time and talents is an essential way build character and help the community. Around and around I went, but I didn’t really feel like there was a place for me.
I passed the quilting booth, but I couldn’t sew. I passed the choir booth, but I couldn’t sing. I walked around and looked at all the booths to see where I would best fit. As it so happened, they were holding a ministry fair, and I decided to check it out. When I moved to Atlanta and started going to my current church, I wanted to get involved by joining a ministry.
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