How does the Stewardship Council define ‘stewardship’?
Most all agree that we need to ‘be good stewards’ but few have stopped to consider the more significant questions. Webster defines a steward as ‘someone who manages property or affairs of someone else.” The reality is that stewardship doesn’t make much sense apart from that ‘someone else’ for whom we steward. Stewardship is a recurring theme throughout Scripture. An individual’s recognition of God’s role as creator and designer of every aspect of life radically changes how one relates and responds to the Creator. In essence, God has entrusted His people with a profound responsibility; to manage all that He created. This creation goes well beyond giving, sharing, spending, saving, raising money, and care of the environment. In fact, God has entrusted us with (to name a but a few) gifts, abilities, freedom, relationships, roles, in addition to finances and material resources that we rightly associate with stewardship. Further, Scripture tells us that our very life and breath do not belon
