WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS AND DOESN'T SAY ABOUT STEWARDSHIP
In the file, "My Beliefs", at this Website, I note that the lasting debt to the Presbyterian
Church, which I joined at age seven, is the concept of stewardship. Every morning, I give
thanks to those (especially, my dea departed wife) who have blessed my life. I begin by saying;
"My Sweet Lord, thank you for another day. And thank you for my Stewardhship. Help me to fulfill
it this day."
By the time I joined the Presbyterian Church, I had already started the task I set for myself,
to please my mother, of daily reading of The Bible, often pages a day. As best I remember, I
had read The Bible completely through ten times by the time I wa stwelve years of age.
However, upon hearing, at age 7, in College Hill Presbyterian Church, references to "Stweardship"
in general, I was puzzled. Because I had read little about this in The Bible.
There is
- the Parable, told by Jesus, of "the wise and faithful steward" in Luke, Ch. 12, and in
Ch. 16;
- the reference in Corinthians 4.1 to "stewards of the mysteries of God":
- the reference in Titus 1.7, that "a bisop must be blameless, as the steward of Gog":
- the reference in Peter 4.10, "as good stewards of the manifold grace of God".
So I had to "work out" stewardship for myself, as with most concepts and duties.