Discussion Questions 9/19/20

9/19/2020

These discussion questions are based on the sermon titled "Stewardship".

Here are some discussion questions that you can talk about with the people that are in your home with you. You can also call a friend who was watching and discuss it with them. Or you can break out a notebook and use these questions to journal your thoughts on the message. Those who are at the church will discuss this after the message.

1. Why does God care about our financial status?

2. Why doesn’t money satisfy?

3. Why is money untrustworthy?

4. How is the love of money the root of all evil?

5. How is stewardship (manager) a good description for our role here on earth?

6. Besides money, what other things has God given us responsibility over?

7. Knowing that we answer to God, how does that change the way we live?

8. What message did you personally take away from this sermon?

9. How can you apply this sermon to your life?

10. What practical thing can you do today to get started?

Feel free to share some of your thoughts in the comment section below:

4 Comments

Helen Morgan

9/19/2020 02:24:05 pm

Q4.) How is the love of money the root of all evil?

I consider money to be the root of all evil because almost every wrong doing can be traced to an attachment to material wealth. It has been said that whoever loves money never have enough; and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. It is my belief that people who desires to be rich will fall into temptation and harmful desires that causes them to plunge into destruction. It is because of the love of money that some have wandered away from the faith and put themselves at risks of doing wrong.

Money is of no value in itself but the desire for money is because it can be traded for the "many desires" that we have. However, money cannot be traded for God or godliness so it can be seen as the root longing for the things money can buy minus God and that is why all these desires plunge people into ruin and destruction. Simple put if you love money you cannot serve God which means everything you do is evil. Through the love of money some have wandered away from the faith. Philippians 4:11 says that faith teaches us to be content in whatever situation we find ourselves.

In a nutshell Matt. 6:24 states no one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. My take away is that, if you love money, you cannot serve God and if you cannot serve God, then everything you do is evil. Any act not done out of loving service to God is evil. Therefore the love of money is the root of all evil.

Wayne Jamel

9/21/2020 05:20:32 pm

hmm "whoever loves money never has enough"
Thats deep

I like how you went down the thought process. You are right. Money is just. Its what money buys or the power it can give us. So the love of money is really the love of the things of this world.
You can have things of this world, but you cannot LOVE it. We must only LOVE God... "and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace"

Selva Mason

9/22/2020 05:28:29 am

6. Besides money, what other things has God given us responsibility over?

God has giving us responsibility over or neighbors. We are asked to love our neighbors as ourselves. 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

7. Knowing that we answer to God, how does that change the way we live?
Knowing that we answer to God changes the way we live because we live to satisfy and please God and not to satisfy and people, or worship money or other material things. Meaning, God is the ultimate judge of our actions and our actions should not conflict with God's commands. Honoring God's commands (the commandments and other bible principles) ensure that we are living a submissive life that allows God to lead.

9/26/2020 02:51:18 pm

Thanks Selva for sharing your thoughts. That Bible passage is rarely used in the idea of stewardship. But its a good way to look at it.

Discussion Questions 9/19/20

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