Stewardship

From the beginning UBF tried to plant stewardship in students' hearts. When newcomers introduced themselves at the center, we asked them to say, "I am a steward." In many ways we planted stewardship in students' hearts.

First, we planted stewardship over God's work. Dr. Samuel Lee taught Apostle Paul's stewardship frequently. Though Apostle Paul was a young man from a third-world country, he had a sense of responsibility and stewardship toward Rome, the super-power nation of the time. Dr. Samuel Lee emphasized that though we were poor and experiencing all kinds of difficulties, still we must have pride as spiritual leaders for powerful nations of the world and equip ourselves with spiritual authority and qualifications (Nov. 29, 1964). Student committee meetings were formed in order to plant stewardship. At that time all the decisions were made at student committee meetings and everybody participated in the work of God positively with stewardship.

Second, we planted stewardship over God's flock. Whenever we prayed in the morning on campus, we prayed a high priestly prayer for the president, professors and students. We had pride of being stewards of our campus and prayed for campus evangelization.

Third, we planted stewardship over Korea. At that time Korea was helpless and it was difficult for students to take pride in their nation, Korea. Moreover, it was difficult for them to think of themselves as stewards of their nation and to have a sense of responsibility over the nation. But Dr. Samuel Lee planted stewardship in students' hearts over the nation, pointing out spiritual problems of the nation based on the Bible. He also trained us to overcome those spiritual problems in us such as a beggars' mentality and a dependent spirit. He trained us to give rather than to receive and to devote ourselves for world mission.

Fourth, we planted stewardship over South East Asia. Though we prayed for South East Asian countries, we were not better than them. But from the beginning we shouted "We are the stewards of South East Asia! I am a spiritual general of South East Asia!" in order to have stewardship over South East Asia.

Now we grew to have stewardship over the whole world. When we prayed with stewardship over the world, God entrusted the world to us. Now God is working out his world salvation plan through UBF. Young people of this generation are becoming selfish and self-centered. But we must have stewardship over this generation and offer our high priestly prayer for campus pioneering and world mission.