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.

I can still remember my dad telling me as just a boy.

Son, there's two kinds of people in the world, givers and takers,

and you'll have to decide which one you're going to be.

Well, I want to be a giver, but how?

How do you be a proper giver?

What's the secret to being the kind of giver that honors the Lord and fulfills God's purpose?

Well, I think it's wrapped up in our worship of God. In our last study,

we began talking about the worship of stewardship. And we began with this, that you've got to

recognize that God is God and you are not. We're in 2nd Corinthians chapter 8 again today, but may I

just read something to you that Paul wrote to a different church?

He wrote to the church at Rome, which, by the way, was also a group of believers in a very

materialistic society in a very worldly place.

And he writes to them in Romans chapter number 11 and verse 35 and says this,

or who hath first given to him? and it shall be recompensed unto him again,

for of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory forever. Amen. What's he doing?

He's reminding them, God gave you all this to start with. Do you really think

God's going to be your dead hurt? Do you really think that the Lord owes you? No, we owe him. In fact,

those are the verses in Romans that precede him saying, I beseech you therefore, brethren by the

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