This session we continue the topic of stewarding our bodies by exploring the habit of giving. We also begin stewarding our relationships.

2. S
The Habit of Giving

3. Large Group Question
S Why are people generally resistant to
giving financial resources to a church?

4. S
A Guideline for Giving
2 Corinthians 9:6-15

5. Context for the Passage
Paul is collecting money for the church in
Jerusalem that had fallen on hard times.

7. S
Why Give?
Small Group Bible Study on Handout

8. S
Our Body,
Public or Private?

9. S
Our Body,
Public or Private?

10. S
Our Body,
God’s Temple
1 Corinthians 6:12-20

11. S
Stewarding our
Relationships
The Habits of
Vital Relationships
and
Sharing My Faith

12. Darkness of isolation
self
self
self
self
self

13. Created for Community
self
self
self
self
self
So God created human beings in his own image.
In the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:27

14. Who is My Neighbor?
Intimate Soul Mate
Close Friends
Family
Chosen Community
Others like you
Others not like you
enemies
Safe Space
(Intimate
Neighbor)
Neutral Space
(Comfortable Neighbor)
Scary Space
(Uncomfortable
Neighbor)
Healthy
boundary
Self/Spirit
How does
God’s love flow
in this picture?

15. Two Gathering Spaces for the Church
STemple
Courts
SHomes
Acts 2:43-47
Group Discussion: List the positives and negatives for
both types of church gatherings in light of loving your
neighbor and stewarding all of our relationships.

16. Two Gathering Spaces for the Church
S Temple Courts
S Positive
S Pooled resources
S Energy
S Sense of part of larger vision
S Negative
S Impersonal
S Isolation
S beauracracy
S Homes
S Positive
S Intimacy
S Needs met
S Belonging
S Negative
S Limited resources
S Isolation from larger community
Acts 2:43-47

17. S
Welcoming the
Stranger
What is the purpose of
our public worship
space?