Penasquitos Stake Institute

Study Guide

 

1. Read Luke 16:1-2. To whom was this parable spoken? List the characters in the parable. Why was the steward asked to give an account of his stewardship?

NOTE: A steward was more than just a servant, he was like a business manager, empowered with authority to make major financial decisions on behalf of his master and work with third parties, such as his master’s debtors.

 

 

2. Read Luke 16:3-4. Why do you think the steward couldn’t dig (manual labor) or beg if he lost his job? What is the first part of his plan?

 

 

3. Read Luke 16:5-7. How did the steward implement his plan to remain solvent?

NOTE: A hundred measures of oil and a hundred measures of wheat represent LARGE quantities. A hundred baths would have been around 900 gallons. A hundred kors (the dry measure) of wheat might have been more than a hundred bushels.

 

 

4. Read Luke 16:8-9. Who commended the unjust steward? Another translation for the last part of verse 8 reads, “…for the children of this age are more shrewd (or prudent) in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.” How might those who deal in temporal things, like this steward, be wiser in their preparation for the future than those who deal in spiritual things?

 

 

5. Read D&C 82:22. Luke 16:9 contains the first of three lessons to be learned from this parable. The Jerusalem Bible renders part of this verse, “Use money, tainted as it is, to win friends.” Using this idea with D&C 82:22, what might be the first lesson of the parable?

 

 

6. Read Luke 16:10-12. The second lesson, or application of the parable is in these verses. Give your explanation of the second lesson by finishing the sentence: “If you are faithful in your earthly stewardship….”

 

 

7. Read Luke 16:13. What is the third lesson of the parable? Why is it impossible to serve two masters?

EXTRA CREDIT READING: Jacob 2:18-19.