1.4 Stewardship Over Creation

• The meaning of good stewardship
• Scriptures on stewardship: Genesis 1:26-28 and 2:15-16
• The four principles of good stewardship
• Qualities of a good steward
• Areas of stewardship: creation, time, talents, wealth and the body
• Applying stewardship in daily activities

• interpret the scriptures on stewardship
• deduce lessons learnt about stewardship for application in daily life
• model qualities of good stewardship in day-to-day life

“How do you exercise good stewardship in daily activities?”

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1. Stewardship: its meaning, its scriptures and its principles
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   What a steward is, what Genesis 1 and 2 actually say about human responsibility for creation, and the four principles of good stewardship.
2. Qualities of a good steward, and stewardship in daily life
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   The qualities scripture requires of a steward, the areas entrusted to us, and how stewardship is exercised at home, school, church and in the environment.
3. Stewardship of creation in Kenya
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Genesis 2:15 applied to Kenyan forests, water, soil and waste, with practices that actually guard what was entrusted.
4. Stewardship of time
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Time cannot be stored or borrowed. Ephesians 5:15-16, the sabbath, and the difference between rest and waste.
5. Stewardship of talents and gifts
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Gifts are received and meant to be used for others. 1 Peter 4:10, and the parable of the talents applied to a Grade 10 week.
6. Stewardship of wealth
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Money and things are received. Give, save, spend, share and refuse theft - with the rich fool as the warning against forgotten ownership.
7. Stewardship of the body
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   1 Corinthians 6:19-20: the body is a temple and was bought with a price. Food, rest, movement, purity and refusal of harm.
8. Practising stewardship every day
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   The inquiry question at home, school, church and in the community: a poem as required, and one sustained project that can still be running next term.