Stewardship of Life-Opportunities in a Christian Worldview:
Using our Time, Abilities, Knowledge, Money, and Relationships
Christian
Stewardship of Life
Opportunities requires
caring for God's Creation —
which includes Our Environment — with
Actions about Pollution & Ozone & Energy & Climate.
I.O.U. — There will be significant development of this page later, maybe in mid-2014.
These ideas are from the homepage for Christian Stewardship:
Christian Stewardship as a Whole-Person Way of Life: This
is
a
website
for whole-person education, and a whole person lives in a way that effectively
integrates
all
aspects
of life. ... The homepage about WORLDVIEW
EDUCATION FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING ends
by stating that "fully living a Christian worldview involves a CHRISTIAN
STEWARDSHIP of everything in life, including our opportunities (which
depend on time, abilities, knowledge, money, relationships,...) and
our environment." Various aspects of "fully
living a Christian worldview" are explored below, for a
stewardship of our OPPORTUNITIES and ENVIRONMENT.
• Christian Stewardship of our OPPORTUNITIES
God gives each of us unique opportunities, which
occur during time, in situations. An essential
part of "life stewardship" is making wise decisions about how to
most effectively use our opportunities. A
links-page about CHRISTIAN
STEWARDSHIP OF OPPORTUNITIES looks at various aspects of life:
TIME — "do not squander
time, for it's the stuff life is made of," said Ben Franklin.
ABILITIES — Each of us has unique abilities
(physical, mental, emotional, relational) given to us by God. We
can understand our abilities more fully by developing a personal awareness
(by noticing
what we're skilled at doing and what we enjoy doing) combined with contemplative
reflection (and prayer in which we ask God for guidance) that leads to self-knowledge.
KNOWLEDGE can be internal (with improved
self-understanding) or external (when we improve our understanding of the world); members
of ASA believe
that the world was designed and created by God, and that scholarship (in
all fields that seek to understand the world, including science & technology) can
be
a
religious
vocation, and that there are
many ministry opportunities for CHRISTIANS
IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. {note: Jews and Christians, due
to our shared foundation of Judeo-Christian scriptures and beliefs, have many
similarities in our worldviews, but ASA is a Christian organization, and this
part
of
the
website
will
focus
on Christian
stewardship. }
MONEY — financial resources can be useful in
achieving practical goals, and economic factors often play an important
role in our decisions about what to do and how, in our efforts to be better
stewards; currently, wise
use of money is the most common focus of Christian stewardship, although
(as emphasized in this page) God wants us to define stewardship
more
broadly,
to include everything in life.
RELATIONSHIPS — according
to Jesus, the
second-greatest commandment is to "love your
neighbor as you love yourself." One way to love people is
by evangelism, locally or globally, when we "go
and make disciples of all nations." Another way is to love
people by serving them, by helping them meet their practical needs, as in serving
the poor by using science and technology. The solid foundation
for Christian stewardship of life is the
greatest commandment — to "love the Lord
your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind" — because
this is our most important relationship. {the
two great commandments}
Care of Creation: The creation of God includes people (as
in "relationships" above) and our environment (the focus
below).
• Christian Stewardship of our ENVIRONMENT
Now and in the future, what can Christians do to
improve the quality of our environment, to ... [the page then continues describing what we can do].
This website for Whole-Person Education has TWO KINDS OF LINKS:
an ITALICIZED LINK keeps you inside a page, moving you to
another part of it, and
a NON-ITALICIZED LINK opens another page. Both keep everything inside this window,
so your browser's BACK-button will always take you back to where you were.
Here are other related pages:
This page, assembled by Craig Rusbult (editor), is
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/views/life.htm
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