Our Approach to Stewardship Education in the Southern Africa Indian Ocean Division

1. Our Approach to Stewardship
Education
Aniel Barbe
Stewardship Ministries and Trust Services
SID
Category: Mainstreaming of Stewardship Education

2. OUR VISION
All of us in full partnership with Him,
accomplishing the final mission.

3. PLAN
I. Most Effective Motivating Factor
I. Most Significant Transforming Factor:
- The Role of Information
- Relationship: Vertical & Horizontal

4. I. Most Effective Motivating Factor
Commonly used Sources of Motivation:
i. Reward
ii. Punishment/The Fear of
Punishment
iii. Shame

5. The Results Obtained by Behaviorism
Approach
- It produces a change in individuals.
- The changes do not last long.
- The changes are linked to circumstances.
A change in circumstance usually affects
the transformation that has occurred.

6. The First Source of Motivation
First Motivation Consequence
Reward Selfishness
Punishment Fearful spirit
Shame Legalistic or
double-sided
person

7. E.G White about the Sources of Motivation
“ It is not the fear of
punishment, or the hope of
ever- lasting reward, that leads
the disciples of Christ to follow
Him.”
Desire of Ages, p. 479

8. I. Most Effective Motivating Factor
2 Corinthians 5:14
“For Christ’s love compels us,
because we are convinced that
one died for all, and therefore all
died.”

9. I. Most Effective Motivating Factor
“ To Compel”
The verbs « to compel » means a
strong force that is pushing
someone or an object in a
particular direction.

10. I. Most Effective Motivating Factor
Effect of “Love” as the First Motivating
Factor
2 Corinthians 5:15
And he died for all, that those who live
should no longer lives for themselves but
for him who died for them and raised
again.

11. I. Most Effective Motivating Factor
Paul’s Motivating the Christians
Romans 12:1
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and
sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer
your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and
pleasing to God—this is your true and
proper worship.

12. I. Most Effective Motivating Factor
E.G White: The Compelling Power of Love
“ Nothing reaches so fully down to the
deepest motives of conduct as a sense
of the pardoning love of Christ.”
Desire of Ages, p. 490

13. I. Most Effective Motivating Factor
Insights from the Old Testament
“I have loved you with an
everlasting love; I have drawn you
with unfailing kindness.” Jeremiah 31:3
“I led them with cords of human
kindness, with ties of love.” Hosea 11:4

14. Example of King David: The Great Giver
- He gave abundantly. ( 1 Ch. 22:3,4)
- He gave sacrificially. ( 1 Ch. 22:14)
- He gave as an act of devotion. (1 Ch.
29:3,4)
Why did he give in such manner ?

15. The Motivation of King David
- The Permanence of God. ( 1 Ch. 22:18)
- The Mercies of God . ( 1 Ch. 28:14)
- The God who provides for all. (1 Ch. 29:14,16)
His giving was a response to God’s giving!

16. I. Most Effective Motivation Factor
Practical Implication:
Bring people to know more and
experience more of God’s love.

17. II. Most Significant Transforming
Factor

18. II. Most Significant Transforming Factor
Two Powerful Transforming
Factors:
- Information
- Relationship

19. II. Most Significant Transforming Factor
The Value of Information:
• Help people to know the instructions of
God.
• Create Transparency/Build Trust.
• Information is useful but insufficient to
produce changes.

20. II. Most Significant Transforming Factor
The Value of Vertical Relationship
John 15:5
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who
abides in Me, and I in him, bears much
fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you both to will
and to do for His good pleasure.

21. II. Most Significant Transforming Factor
The Value of Horizontal Relationship
Acts 20:20 – 21
You know that I have not hesitated to
preach anything that would be helpful to
you but have taught you publicly and from
house to house.
I have declared to both Jews and Greeks
that they must turn to God in repentance
(transformation) and have faith in our Lord
Jesus.

22. II. Most Significant Transforming Factor
The Zacchaeus Experience or the
Transforming Factor of Relationship
Luke 19: 5
“When Jesus came to that place, he looked up
and said to Zacchaeus, “ Hurry down, Zacchaeus,
because I must stay in your house today.”
Luke 19: 8
“ Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “
Listen, sir! I will give half of my belongings to
the poor, and if I have cheated anyone, I will pay
back four times as much.”

23. II. Most Significant Transforming Factor
Mary’s Extravagant Generosity or the
Transforming Factor of Relationship
Luke 10:38-39
He came to a village where a woman named
Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister
called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to
what he said.
John 12:3
“Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an
expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and
wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was
filled with the fragrance of the perfume.”

24. II. Most Significant Transforming Factor
E. G White Recommends Relationship
“It is not enough to preach to men; we must
pray with them and for them; we must not
hold ourselves coldly aloof from them, but
come in sympathy close to the souls with
wish to save, visit and converse with them.
The minister who conducts the work outside
the pulpit in a proper manner will accomplish
ten-fold more than he who confines his
labour to the desk.”
Review and Herald, August 1878

25. II. Most Significant Transforming Factor
Practical Implication
- Insist and help people to maintain a daily
connection with God.
- Practice house visitation as a basic
strategy to propagate stewardship
education.

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