About the Study

Faithful Living in Lean Seasons is a ten-week discipleship journey that approaches stewardship as a way of life rather than a discussion limited to money. Through Scripture, reflection and practical application participants explore how followers of Jesus faithfully steward what God has entrusted to them; including resources, time, work, relationships, opportunities, and seasons of limitation.

Designed for both individual formation and congregational use, the series give participants a biblical framework for faithful living while providing churches and ministry leaders with a structured ready-to-teach discipleship experience.

What You Will Study

Across ten lessons, participants explore stewardship as faithful living in every dimension of life:

1. Everything Belongs to God

2. Learning Contentment

3. Time as a Gift

4. Faithful with What God Provides

5. The Grace of Generosity

6. Living Simply

7. Faithful Work

8. Caring for One Another

9. Hope in Seasons of Lack

10. Rich Toward God

Designed for Individual Growth and Congregational Formation

For Participants

Whether used in a Sunday school class, small group, Bible study, or personal study, Faithful Living in Lean Seasons helps participants connect biblical stewardship with the realities of everyday life. Each lesson moves from Scripture toward reflection and practical application, helping participants develop habits of faithful living that extend beyond the classroom

For Churches and Ministry Leaders

The series provides churches with a complete ten-week discipleship experience that can be incorporated into Christian education, small-group ministry, stewardship formation, or congregational study. The accompanying Ministry Leader's Guide equips teachers and ministry leaders to guide each session with biblical context, teaching direction, discussion, and application.

What's Included

Student Study Guide

The Student Study Guide leads participants through all ten lessons with Scripture, biblical teaching, reflection, discussion, and practical application. It is designed for use in class as well as continued reflection throughout the week.

Ministry Leader's Guide

The Ministry Leader's Guide equips teachers and ministry leaders to lead the ten-week series effectively with lesson objectives, biblical context, teaching guidance, discussion direction, application and support for addressing common questions and misconceptions.

Pastoral Reflections

Ten pastoral essays accompany the series, with one reflection corresponding to each of the ten themes. Written from a pastoral perspective, these essays deepen the biblical and theological conversation beyond the classroom lesson and invite readers to consider how faithful stewardship shapes life with God in seasons of abundance, limitation, responsibility, generosity, work, and hope.

How the Series Works

Faithful Living in Lean Seasons is designed as a ten-week journey. Each week brings Scripture, biblical understanding, pastoral reflections, and practical application together around one dimension of faithful stewardship.

Participants may use the Student Study Guide individually or as part of a class or small group. Churches an pair the Student Study Guide with the ministry Leader's Guide and Pastoral Reflections to create a coordinated congregational discipleship experience.

Choose the Resources That Fit Your Needs

Begin with the Student Study Guide for personal or group study, or equip your church with the complete Faithful Living in Lean Seasons series. Each resource is designed to work independently while also functioning as part of a coordinated ten-week discipleship experience.

Student Study Guide

A Ten-Week Journey in Biblical Stewardship and Faithful Discipleship

Designed for individual study or group participation, the Student Study Guide leads participants through ten lessons exploring faithful stewardship as a way of life. Scripture, reflection, discussion, and practical application together to help participants consider how faithfulness shapes the use of time, resources, relationships, work, generosity, and daily life with God.

Best for: Individuals, Sunday school classes, Bible studies, and small groups.

Instructor's Guide

A Teaching Companion for Faithful Living in Lean Seasons

Designed for those leading the ten-week study, the Instructor's Guide provides lesson guidance, teaching direction, discussion support, and practical helps for facilitating each session. It equips instructors to lead with clarity while allowing flexibility for the needs and experiences of their particular group.

Best for: Bible study teachers, Sunday school instructors, small-group leaders, pastors, and other ministry leaders facilitating the series.

Pastoral Reflections

Ten Reflections on Faithful Living and Biblical Stewardship

Written to accompany the ten-week study, Pastoral Reflections explores the spiritual and pastoral dimensions of each lesson. These reflections invite readers to move beyond stewardship as a matter of resources alone and consider how faithfulness shapes the whole of life with God.

Best for: Individuals, study participants, ministry leaders, and readers seeking deeper reflection on faithful living.

A Coordinated Ten-Week Discipleship Experience

Faithful Living in Lean Seasons can be used as more than an individual Bible study. Churches may bring the Student Study Guide, Instructor's Guide, and Pastoral Reflections together to create a coordinated ten-week experience of biblical study, reflection, conversation, and faithful practice.

Participants engage the lessons through the Student Study Guide, instructors receive additional support for leading each session, and the Pastoral Reflections tend the themes beyond the classroom into the larger life of faith.

Each resource can stand on its own. Together, they provide a unified approach to helping a congregation consider what faithful living looks like in seasons of abundance, limitation, uncertainty, and change.