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Reflections from Mark Allan Powell’s book, Giving to God, published 2006.
- Stewardship is everything we do after we say we believe.
- Stewardship is the re-enactment of Christ’s life in Christ’s people.
- Stewardship is a philosophy of life and a theological form of self-management.
- Stewardship is the management of life and all its resources for God and for the good of all.
- Stewardship is partnership with Christ, through the Holy Spirit, in fulfilling the purposes of God in the world.
- Stewardship is the practice of the Christian religion. It is the Christian conception of life as a whole, manifested in attitudes and actions.
- Christian stewardship has come to mean ‘what we do with what we have, all the time.’
- Stewardship is taking care of the bounty that God continually provides us.
- Christian stewardship is the practice of systematic and proportionate giving of time, abilities, and material possessions, based upon the conviction that these are trusts from God to be used in his service for the benefit of all mankind in grateful acknowledgment of Christ’s redeeming love.