Life of Christ Lesson 108a: Life is a Stewardship - Part I {Parable of Shrewd Steward}

Luke 16, 17:-10 This is the first of a three-part study on the Lord's instruction regarding wise Christian stewardship. Stewardship is defined as the management or administration of another person's property, finances, and/or other affairs. Christians are to function as administrators of God's wealth on earth. We are to realize we don't really own anything, but that everything we are privileged to enjoy in this life belongs to the Lord and we are to use it profitably for the furtherance of His Kingdom. In this lesson and the next two, the Lord - through three parables - presented His listeners with illustrations to present the rights, the wrongs, and the responsibilities of stewardship (that is our 3-point outline for this study). He began by teaching about RIGHT stewardship, using "The Parable of the Shrewd Steward" (16:1-13).