Christian stewardship begins with the correct understanding that everything we have belongs to the Lord.

Stewardship, then, is not just a focus on money or material things, but also encompasses every spiritual blessing. In this study, making the most of all God

has given, Scott Pauley teaches biblical principles for Christian stewardship. One day, we will meet God

and give an account of how we have handled all of the resources he has put in our hands. Let's listen intently to learn how God expects us to steward his resources.

It's true, but when we even say the word stewardship,

immediately everybody sees dollar signs.

You say you're going to talk about stewardship immediately. People think you're going to talk about stewardship immediately

people think you're going to talk about money but i'm showing you from paul's writing in second

grand this chapter number eight that stewardship is not about money not first it's not it is first about what we

have received in the grace of God.

You see, stewardship is not so much about your goods as it is about his grace.

The greatest gift is not stuff, things, finances.

The greatest gift is the grace of Almighty God.

And so we return to our passage today and this discussion of the

fellowship of our stewardship. Because it's a reminder, as we studied in our last time together,

that we are members of the same family, God's family, and we're soldiers in the same fight,

the fight of faith. And we are recipients in the same fight, the fight of faith. And we are recipients

of the same fullness, the fullness of the grace of Almighty God. If you've not done this already,

I want you to mark in your Bible in 2 Corinthians chapter 8 all the references to grace.

In verse 1, the grace of God. In verse six, the same grace.

In verse seven, abound in this grace also.

In verse nine, for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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