For parents, churches, teachers & small groups
Study it together
Updated 2026-07-28 · Sources: 4 · 8 sessions · 45 minutes each · free to print
Money is the subject people most need to talk about and least want to talk about in company. This is an eight-session study built to make that conversation possible, one session for each step of the Steward's Path, with the passages, the questions, one tool on a screen, and one thing to do before you meet again.
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.Deuteronomy 6:7
KJV. Moses to Israel on the edge of the land. Teaching happens inside ordinary life (at the table, in the car), which is exactly where money is decided.
Who this is for
- Families at the kitchen table
The smallest possible group, and the one Scripture actually addresses first. Forty-five minutes after dinner, once a week, for eight weeks. The children stay at the table. Every session has a line telling you how to keep the 6-10s in it rather than parked with a screen in the next room.
- Church small groups
Built for a leader who is not a financial professional and should not pretend to be one. The questions are written to surface real disagreement in the room (about tithing percentages, about debt, about what counts as enough) because a group that never disagrees never changes anything either.
- Homeschool co-ops
Eight sessions map cleanly onto an eight-week term, and each one carries a tool that does the arithmetic on screen. Older students can run the tool while younger ones predict and tally. Pair it with the age tracks (Seedlings for 5-10, Builders for 11-17) as reading between meetings.
- Youth groups
Teenagers are the audience with the most to gain and the least patience for a lecture, which is why every session puts something on a screen that they can argue with. Sessions 2, 5, and 6 (work, debt, and compounding) land hardest at this age, and are worth doing even if you never run the other five.
How the course works
Eight sessions, forty-five minutes each, in order. Every session has the same four movements, and the order matters more than the content: text before opinion, disagreement before demonstration, demonstration before decision.
| Minutes | Movement | What it looks like |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Read the passages | Aloud, with the verses around them, before anybody offers a view. |
| 15 | Discuss | Three questions written to surface honest disagreement, not to produce the expected answer. |
| 10 | Play the tool together | One interactive on a screen. Everyone writes a prediction before you click. |
| 10 | One action, then close | A single thing each person does before the next meeting, and a closing passage. |
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The eight sessions
- Session 1: Acknowledge the Owner
- Session 2: Work & serve
- Session 3: Give first
- Session 4: Live on less
- Session 5: Owe no one
- Session 6: Multiply faithfully
- Session 7: Provide & protect
- Session 8: Overflow
Before you start
- Read the Steward's Path once yourself. It is the spine of all eight sessions and takes about ten minutes.
- Read how we read Scripture on money. It is what you will reach for when someone quotes Malachi 3:10 as an investment strategy.
- Decide your confidentiality rule in session one, before anybody needs it. The leader's guide gives you four sentences to read out.
- Open each session's tool once on your own beforehand, so the buttons are not a surprise in front of the room.
- If children are coming, skim their track first (Seedlings, ages 5-10 or Builders, ages 11-17) so you know what they already have words for.
For parents specifically
The group study assumes a room. Most money teaching at home happens in ninety-second fragments at a checkout, and needs a different shape: teaching your kids about money covers the allowance argument honestly from both sides, the three-jar practice for ages 5-10, letting teenagers manage real money while the stakes are still small, what children learn from watching you argue about it, and how to run a family money meeting that nobody dreads.
This is teaching, not advice. Nothing in the study is personalized financial, legal, or tax advice, and a group leader should never present it as such. Where Scripture gives wisdom rather than a command (most of Proverbs, most of what we call prudence), the sessions say so plainly.