Becoming a More Faithful Steward of God’s Gifts

• Stewardship
  Managing one’s time, talent and treasure for God’s purposes

• Evangelism
  Witnessing to God’s work in one’s life

•  Mission & Outreach
  Serving others by sharing the love of Christ.

“The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” –Genesis 2:15

Look a little further and Psalms 24:1 shares, “The earth is the LORD’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.”

It is clear that we have been created to care and stewardship is the care of all creation that God has given to us. This is the fundamental principle of biblical stewardship. God owns everything, we are simply managers or administrators acting on his behalf.

Stewardship is the commitment of one’s self and possessions to God’s service, recognizing that we do not have the right of control over our property or ourselves.

“Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given you by God. If you devoted every moment of your whole life exclusively to His service, you could not give Him anything that was not in a sense His own already.”

– C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

1. All we have belongs to God. Our blessings are gifts from God, our generous Creator.
2. We are lifelong stewards of the gifts with which God has blessed us.
3. God expects us to practice stewardship in ways that glorify God and that strengthen His earthly Kingdom.
4. Our stewardship decisions reveal the relative importance of God in our lives.
5. Stewardship greatly impacts the depth of our relationships with God and the quality of our earthly lives.
6. As good stewards, we should use our gifts of time, talent and treasure in those places that best further God’s Kingdom. Buncombe Street Methodist Church is a conduit through which God works.
7. The practice of stewardship changes hearts and strengthens relationships with God. Stewardship is a tie that binds us to God.

Based on the gift each one has received, use it to serve others, as good managers of the varied grace of God.
1 Peter 4:10

The earth and everything in it, the world and its inhabitants, belong to the Lord.
Psalm 24:1

Every generous act and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights; with Him there is no variation or shadow cast by turning.
James 1:17

Honor the Lord with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest.
Proverbs 3:9

Remember this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously. Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:6-7

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
Malachi 3:10

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone.
1 Corinthians 12:4-6

This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.
1 Corinthians 4:1-2

Riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler of everything. Power and might are in Your hand, and it is in Your hand to make great and to give strength to all.
1 Chronicles 29:12

Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as something done for the Lord and not for men, knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ.
Colossians 3:23-24

“His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave! You were faithful over a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Share your master’s joy!’
Matthew 25:21

Precious treasure and oil are in the dwelling of a wise person, but a foolish man consumes them.
Proverbs 21:20

So if you have not been faithful with the unrighteous money, who will trust you with what is genuine?
Luke 16:11

For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have more than enough. But from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
Matthew 25:29

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
–Matthew 6:21

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Make your pledge of time, talent and treasure now!

Adult Commitment

Time & Talent
Service Opportunities
Time & Talent Commitment Form
Online Commitment

Treasure
Treasure Commitment Form
Electronic Funds Transfer (ETF) (PDF)
Online Commitment 

Student Commitment

Time & Talent
Service Opportunities and Treasure Form

BSUMC Stewardship Presentation (PDF)

Principles of Stewardship (PDF)

Sample Letters, Pledge Form, Instruction Form (PDF)

Stewardship Binder (PDF of the three files noted above)