Stewardship Principles

Stewardship Principles describes how Camp’s community will apply our discipleship to Jesus to our spheres of influence and shared and personal resources. Sphere’s of influence mean this principles should be applied to our relationships and areas of responsibility in life. Shared and personal resources means this principles should be applied to thoughts, attention, time, energy, wealth, and property whether held by individuals or community.

GLM

GLM is an acrostic to help the community remember the three principles of Stewardship: God’s, Love, and Most.

God’s

Stewardship begins with the acknowledgement that everything is God’s and belongs to him (Psalms 24:1). This includes people (Ezekiel 18:4), the land (Leviticus 25:23), and therefore all resources derived from the Earth. Therefore, everything (our thoughts, our time & energy, and our resources) should be managed according to God’s will — his design and how he wants things — and for his glory — so people know him and experience his goodness. This is established the Kingdom of Yehovah and his righteousness (Matthew 6:33).

Love

God is love (1 John 4:7-21), and how he wants things can be summed up by love: love God with everything, and love the people around you like you love yourself (Matthew 22:37-40). Therefore, everything should be managed for the good, well-being, and blessing of God, others, and ourselves in that order. This requires us to consider people and all things as gifts from God (John 3:16, James 1:17) that we in turn give to each other (Matthew 10:8) and ourselves according to their God-given identity and purpose.

Most

Because everything is God’s and he gives to us in love, everything should be managed for the most benefit to God, others, and ourselves (Matthew 25:14-30). This means caring for ourselves and our resources in a way that values the grace they can provide, distributes that grace to the most lives, and multiplies and maximizes that grace through wisdom.