Dear members and loved ones of Crooked
Creek Baptist Church,
I want to offer you a special invitation to join us in
September for a series of services that will focus on our stewardship of God’s
creation. Beginning on September 9 we
will focus on our call to be good stewards of this world God has presented to
us.
What is stewardship?
Merriam-Webster defines it as:
the
conducting, supervising, or managing of something; especially : the careful and responsible management of
something entrusted to one's care
Historically speaking from Wikipedia:
stewardship referred to the occupation of a steward. Initially, stewardship was the responsibility
given to household servants to bring food and drinks to a castle dining hall.
The term was then expanded to indicate a household employee's responsibility
for managing household or domestic affairs. Stewardship later became the
responsibility for taking care of passengers' domestic needs on a ship, train
and airplane, or managing the service provided to diners in a restaurant. The
term continues to be used in these specific ways, but it is also used in a more
general way to refer to a responsibility to take care of something belonging to
someone else.
One of the most dramatic understandings of stewardship then,
reminds us that we are entrusted with the care of God’s creation as stewards-
we have no ownership of creation or claim upon it as property but have been
called to care for creation in the name of God.
We are going to explore this concept on two consecutive Sundays with
this focus:
September 9
Scripture: Genesis
1:26-31
Title: Creation’s
Stewards
September 16
Scripture: Matthew
25:14-30
Title: Talented
People
These two stories from the Old and New Testament will help
us to develop a further understanding of the blessings of being entrusted with
something as precious as God’s creation.
I would like to personally invite you to join us for worship this month
as we explore this concept together. I
hope that together we can discover the joy of this Divine appointment over the
world God has created for us!
Yours in Christ,
Tom Bartley, Pastor
