Read for This Week’s Study: Isa. 22:14–18; 1 Cor. 4:1, 2; Col. 2:2, 3; Eph. 6:13–17; 2 Cor. 5:10.

Memory Text: “On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts” (1 Thess. 2:4, NIV).

In the story of humans as it is laid out in the Bible, Adam and Eve were the very first stewards. When they were placed in the Garden of Eden, they were given a multi-layered mandate to care for each other, and to care for the garden ...