STEEMCHURCH: WE ARE STEWARDS OF GOD'S WORK

Peace be unto you all Parishioners of steemchurch. We thank God for another brightest day so lets be glad and rejoice.

Today, our message that we are to share is very simple, as Parishioners of Steemchurch we are Stewards of God work.

According to Longman Dictionary, 'Steward' refers to a man whose job is to look after a house and its lands, such as farm.

We can deduce a lot of meanings from the above meaning that the dictionary has given us. The key words in the above meaning of Stewardship are: 'To look after a house.'

Being a Steward can also mean: Looking after a church and its activities, Looking after students, Looking after your work .

As Parishioners of Steemchurch we are 'Stewards' in our community and the same time God's work. In one aspect, we are here to write good posts and to manage the community well, so that we all can benefit from the success and achievements of this noble community.
Another aspect is propagating the word of God through this community so that others can benefit. Thus, good posts on God's word attract more readers and through this we can get more votes and more followers to our credibility.

To be a good Steward one has to manage things that he has been given to look after, that when the owner of the things comes, proper accounts can be rendered. Let us remember the three servants who were given 'talents,' the last person who was given only one to be managed and get additional said, he was afraid so he dug the ground and kept that talent. Jesus described him as bad and lazy servant. And those who are having more, more will be added, those who do not have but little, that little one will be collected and added to those who are having

MATTHEW 25:29-30
"For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

This shows clearly that there are implications of being a bad 'Steward.' The owner who has given you the property to look after it can deny you of your benefits of being a bad 'Steward.' This is happening in most of our work places, both and privates and public institutions. Because a good servant deserves reward, but a bad servant deserves no reward!

We are 'Stewards' in every place. So any environment that we find ourselves lets demonstrate our stewardship. Being A steward here means looking after everything that comes into our possession, whether we are direct owner or not.

Being Stewards in our houses:
As parents, God has blessed us with children. The father and the mother are the custodians of these children. Their feeding , health, clothing, education and above all their moral life. Again being steward here means taken responsibility of the children. The children are God gifted property to the parents, so failure to upbringing them well, God will judge those parents.

Being Stewards in our Churches
God is created the Heaven and the Earth(Gen. 1:1) and everything in the Earth. God saw that what He has created were good. He finally created Human being to be A Steward of what He has created, thus to look after all things God created. That is: Lands, trees, minerals, waters, animals and the rest.

PSALM 24:1
"The Earth is the LORD'S and the fullness thereof, the World and those who dwell therein."

The above verse illustrates that everything on the Earth belong to God and therefore Human beings are His and we are stewards of the things God has created and as such we should protect them.
The Stewardship begins in our homes before the 'Church' as we discussed already.

1 TIMOTHY 3:1-5(KJV)
1Ti 3:1 This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
1Ti 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1Ti 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
1Ti 3:4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
1Ti 3:5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

The above verses teaches us that, every steward should hold his 'integrity' not for someone to speak bad things about him. So that Steward must possess a descent character. He must also be capable of managing his own house. Because your house is a small group that you can manage, so if you cannot manage your own house how can you manage God's Church.

All things concerning the church, the Leaders in the Church are Stewards of those things: the chapel, the pulpit, the church money, the congregation and other things.
Jesus Christ also gave the people in the Church some task to perform as Stewards. That we should go and make Disciples of all nations and speak the gospel to the people who have not heard it.

Finally, I am leaving all of us Parishioners of this noble community, that we are 'Stewards' of steemchurch. We therefore play a signidicant role of writing good and quality posts not to copy others work. So let us abide by simple rules and bye-laws of steemchurch, so that at the end we will be rewarded massively.
Let us try as much as possible to discard any thing that will tarnish our image or reputation as Parishioners of Steemchurch. Amen!!!