{"id":6145,"date":"2024-11-10T13:05:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T20:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmccnow.com\/cms\/?p=6145"},"modified":"2024-11-20T16:30:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T23:30:26","slug":"thanksgiving-and-stewardship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmccnow.com\/cms\/thanksgiving-and-stewardship\/","title":{"rendered":"Themes of Thanksgiving: Stewardship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have you ever watched Family Feud? It\u2019s a game show hosted by Steve Harvey, a black man with a legendary mustache.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-79b4f84f\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-93b8059d\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-93b8059d videoandaudio\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Themes of Thanksgiving: Stewardship\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1026689259?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The above is for the message only. You can watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/g2iCAZBT1-U?si=X_7MV4B--GZ4TYDJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">entire November 12 worship service here on Youtube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-486956ef\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-486956ef videoandaudio\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Audio only<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/sermons.logos.com\/embed\/sermons\/1392957\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\"><\/iframe>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In that game, teams try to guess the top answers to questions. I thought I\u2019d have you try something like that here. Think of things that have to do with Thanksgiving. The top four answers are on the board. What do you think they were?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the top four:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fooball<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gratitude<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Food<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Family Time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>But here\u2019s one that was never on the list: Stewardship. It never comes up. To be honest, that\u2019s not a surprise. It\u2019s not a concept that\u2019s often tied to the holiday, is it? We don\u2019t usually talk about it around the Thanksgiving table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would argue that not only are stewardship and Thanksgiving related, but that stewardship sets up our more familiar themes of Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Practicing it allows us to grow in our faith as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Stewardship?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What does it mean to steward something? It&#8217;s a lot like defining wisdom, as it&#8217;s something we might have a general concept of but might have difficulty putting into words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found one good definition: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Stewardship starts with the proper ethical stance being the acknowledgement that God is the owner of everything in creation. And as a consequence, humans are entrusted with the wise use of those intended purposes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s a little wordy. We could boil it down to something like this: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>All things belong to God, and our job is to care well for His creation.<\/p>\n<cite>Our working definition of stewardship<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember a time where a family asked me to house and dog sit for them for a few days. They were going to pay me, let me live there, and let me use their hot tub. It was like the greatest thing ever. But I had responsibilities: take care of the dog, keep the house clean, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could play with the dog, watch TV as I pleased, and eat snacks from the cupboards. But even though I enjoyed all of that, at the end of the day none of that belonged to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">God\u2019s ownership<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Stewardship is very much like that, and it&#8217;s something that gets pretty deep. Everything belongs to God. Even the things we think we own really aren&#8217;t ours. It all belongs to Him and we&#8217;ve been entrusted to care for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to look at a few passages that help us understand that better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Then God said, \u201cLet us\u00a0make mankind\u00a0in our image,\u00a0in our likeness,\u00a0so that they may rule\u00a0over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky,\u00a0over the livestock and all the wild animals,\u00a0and over all the creatures that move along the ground.\u201d So God created\u00a0mankind\u00a0in his own image,\u00a0in the image of God\u00a0he created them; male and female\u00a0he created them. God blessed them and said to them,\u00a0\u201cBe fruitful and increase in number;\u00a0fill the earth\u00a0and subdue it. Rule over\u00a0the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite>Genesis 1:26-28<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing in here tells us we own the things we&#8217;re to rule over or that we subdue. We rule and subdue, but do not own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The heavens are yours,\u00a0and yours also the earth; you founded the world and all that is in it.<\/p>\n<cite>Psalm 89:11<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I have no need of a bull\u00a0from your stall or of goats\u00a0from your pens, for every animal of the forest\u00a0is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird\u00a0in the mountains, and the insects in the fields\u00a0are mine. If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world\u00a0is mine, and all that is in it.<\/p>\n<cite>Psalm 50:9-12<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t God being all possessive. He\u2019s merely saying, \u201chey, I don\u2019t need your permission to do what I want with my things. I\u2019ll let you steward the things, I let you manage them. I\u2019ve entrusted you with these things but at the end of the day, they belong to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThis is what the\u00a0Lord\u00a0Almighty says: \u2018In a little while\u00a0I will once more shake the heavens and the earth,\u00a0the sea and the dry land.\u00a0I will shake all nations, and what is desired\u00a0by all nations will come, and I will fill this house\u00a0with glory,\u2019 says the\u00a0Lord\u00a0Almighty.\u00a0The silver is mine and the gold\u00a0is mine,\u2019 declares the\u00a0Lord\u00a0Almighty.<\/p>\n<cite>Haggai 2:6-8<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Responsibility for what we have<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>God makes it clear that everything from the cattle on the hills to the last bit of silver and gold belongs to Him. He gives us freedom to use those things. While we might have a sense of ownership as far as ruling over those things, at the end of the day we\u2019re stewards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was younger, when my parents would ask me to help clean the house, I would groan and complain. They would say that this is your house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My name wasn\u2019t on the deed, I didn\u2019t sign any papers, I didn\u2019t technically own the house, but I had responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stewardship has to do with understanding that all things belong to God. Thankfully and graciously, God has entrusted us to care for, to rule over, and to be stewards of the things He owns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stewardship is an invitation.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Stewardship is a gracious invitation by God to take care of what he&#8217;s created. But that invitation means understanding that if God owns everything, that means EVERYTHING. The things we own aren\u2019t really ours. They belong to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The money in our bank account doesn\u2019t belong to us. It belongs to God. You may have worked for it, you may have earned it, but at the end of the day it\u2019s not yours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clothes on our backs, the cars in our garages, the homes we occupy are all entrusted to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn\u2019t take long to be bothered by that idea, does it? It can be frustrating, as a consumeristic culture, to hear that the things we have aren&#8217;t really ours. We&#8217;ve worked for them, we&#8217;ve saved, and it makes us want to hold onto them all the more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flip side is, God has entrusted us with what is his. I may not own the things I have, but God has trusted me to take care of them. That\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Understanding stewardship helps us grow spiritually<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In Matthew 25, Jesus has been teaching about the end times, his return, and about the kingdom of Heaven. And then he moves on to this story to help us understand how stewardship works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man is going on a business trip. He doesn\u2019t know how long he\u2019ll be gone, so he calls three servants in and entrusts them each with a certain amount of money. He gives five bags of gold to the first, two bags to the second, and one to the last, differing amounts all based on what he knows each one can handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first servant puts that money to work and doubles his money. The second one does the same. The last servant doesn\u2019t do anything other than bury it in the ground so he doesn&#8217;t lose it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the businessman returns, he calls them in to see how they did. He celebrates with the first two servants, telling them that since they were faithful with a few things, they&#8217;ll be entrusted with more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then the third servant comes in with excuses. He blames the businessman instead. The master, noticing he didn&#8217;t do anything with the money, calls him wicked and lazy. He gives the bag of gold to the first servant and sends the last guy away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are three principles we can take from this story that can help us grow spiritually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recognize that God has entrusted us with something.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the parable, the businessman entrusted his servants with gold. Several scriptures show us that God has entrusted us with many things. We\u2019ve been entrusted with the money in our bank accounts, with our wealth, and our possessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God has entrusted us with time. In First Corinthians 12, we see how God entrusted spiritual gifts and talents to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of growing in stewardship is realizing God gave you something to steward. This includes your home, your gifts, and talents. It includes your time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our growth journey requires us to take inventory of what we\u2019ve been given. Not to say \u201clook what I have\u201d but to recognize the trust God has placed in us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Understand that God settles accounts with what He has given.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This can be intimidating, maybe even a little ominous. But that settling of accounts is common in our lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students receive report cards throughout their lives. The reports tell how well you&#8217;ve done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have to settle accounts with the government every year at tax time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The context of Matthew 25 is that Jesus is speaking about the Kingdom of God and of preparing for his return. Understanding our accountability helps us be mindful of how we use what he&#8217;s given us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I holding onto the money I\u2019ve been entrusted to out of selfishness or worry? Or am I stewarding what I\u2019ve been given? Am I using it wisely, being generous, blessing and supporting others with it? Or am I serving myself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I using my time to serve myself? Or am I being a good steward of the timeI&#8217;ve been entrusted with? Do I use my gifts and abilities to elevate myself, or to lift our Lord up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Understand that God wants us to use the things we\u2019ve been given well.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The businessman asks his servants how they\u2019ve done. He celebrates with them when they do well. &#8220;You did great, let me give you more.&#8221; In the same way, God delights in good use of what He\u2019s given us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s at this point that we can start feeling bad about ourselves. Maybe we haven\u2019t used our time, our treasure, and our talents well. We haven\u2019t taken care of what God entrusted us with. But here\u2019s the good news:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can choose to be, start to be, or learn to be good stewards of what we have today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s never too late. We can start where we are. We might say \u201cI don\u2019t have much right now, I\u2019m struggling at the moment.\u201d But how are you doing with what you DO have?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We might feel like we don\u2019t know what it looks like to be a good steward. Who can we talk to? How can we learn?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the benefit of having older saints in the church. You can talk to them, see how they\u2019ve done it. What did they do well? What did they do not so well?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pressing into these principles sets us on a path for spiritual growth. They also help us better engage other themes of thanksgiving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can be more generous when we realize that we&#8217;re actually being generous with someone else&#8217;s money. We will account for how we&#8217;ve used what we\u2019ve been given. So let\u2019s use them well. Let\u2019s use them in a way that would please God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A stewardship mindset causes us to take inventory of what we&#8217;ve been entrusted with. That leads to deeper gratitude as we thank God around the Thanksgiving table for how he&#8217;s trusted us with time, treasure, and talents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever watched Family Feud? It\u2019s a game show hosted by Steve Harvey, a black man with a legendary mustache. In that game, teams try to guess the top answers to questions. I thought I\u2019d have you try something like that here. Think of things that have to do with Thanksgiving. 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