I know that the popular word to use today is generosity. I use that work a lot myself. But there is something about the words stewards and stewardship that keeps drawing me in:

  1. Stewards can be generous. Generous people aren’t necessarily stewards.
  2. Stewards don’t own what they manage.
  3. Stewards know they will be held accountable for what they do with what they’ve been given.
  4. Stewards are rewarded based on the results they achieve or the impact they’ve made.
  5. Stewards act out of concern for the owner of the property they manage.
  6. Stewardship is the beginning of discipleship.
  7. Stewardship carries with it a long history of meaning and application.
  8. Stewardship prevents me from becoming consumed with cultural norms.
  9. Stewardship is multi-dimentional: time, talents, treasure, temple, and testimony.
  10. Stewardship balances our worldview between “ourselves” and “everyone else.”

Let’s keep using the words stewards and stewardship. I think they still has a lot of life left in them. Agreed?

 

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