Christian Teachings on Stewardship

Question 1

+Bible, care

Answer 1

‘Then the Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and guard it.’ (Genesis 2:15)

Question 2

+Bible, love

Answer 2

‘A good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children.’ (Proverbs 13:22)

Question 3

+Bible, God happy

Answer 3

‘God looked at everything he had made, and was very pleased’ (Genesis 1)

Question 4

+Church teachings

Answer 4

‘For the Church of the 21st century, good ecology is not an optional extra but a matter of justice. It is therefore central to what it means to be a Christians’ (Dr Rowan Williams, while Archbishop of Canterbury)

Question 5

+God’s anger

Answer 5

‘I brought them into fertile land to eat its fruit and its produce. They came and made my land unclean. They made my property disgusting.’ (Jeremiah 2)

Question 6

+/- Moral duty/rule

Answer 6

‘…so that they may have dominion over the fish of the sea and the birds in the sky…’ (Genesis 1)