God wants us to be good stewards of what He’s given but if we want students to be willing and cheerful givers, we’ve got to get beyond mere stewardship. They need to understand other biblical concepts about giving.
What Students Need to Understand to Become Givers that Please God
Two chapters in the New Testament, 2 Corinthians 8-9, provide some insight into what tends to motivate people to be the kind of givers pleasing to God. You would do well to read those chapters.
The biblical concepts on giving from those chapters are in an acrostic using the word ‘giver’ in the Sowing Good into Our Lives Discipleship Acrostics tool which teachers can use with their students to teach what God looks for in our giving.