Week
1: It’s God’s World—We Just Live in It
Dear parents,
Fusion is launching a three-week series on stewardship.
Our goal is to help our teenagers understand that become a good, wise,
effective steward is a critical life lesson that if mastered young can lead to
a more fulfilling, blessed life.
Stewardship simply means to manage someone else’s resources. Using
Psalm 24:1, we learned how everything in the world belongs to God, and he
simply chooses to entrust it to us. We may use such words as “own” and
“ownership,” but God wants us to develop an attitude that reflects his
ownership of everything in our lives. This allows us to hold to things loosely,
recognizing that God is our provider. We can trust him instead of relying on
our own abilities and strength.
Because everything belongs to God, we need to have the attitude
that what’s ours is really his—our stuff, our time, our talents, and our lives.
It all begins and ends with him. Our role as Christians is to learn how to
become responsible stewards of the things that God has entrusted to us.
Here are some questions you might want to ask as you talk with
your teenager about this week’s lesson:
- If we truly believe that everything comes from God and belongs to him, how will that affect our attitudes and actions?
- If God simply entrusts things to us, how can that affect your daily choices? What are some real-life ways that truth can impact you?
- How can stewardship be a way of worshiping God?
Have an awesome week!
FOR KEEPS [MEMORY VERSE]
The earth is the Lord’s, and everything
in it. The world and all its people belong to him (Psalm 24:1).