Biblical stewardship is not convincing people to volunteer to do jobs for the church. It is helping disciples discover the talents and abilities God has given them and then figuring out how God is calling them to use those gifts in the church and in the world

Here are some helpful definitions of stewardship:

• The root meaning of the biblical word for stewardship is “the management of a household”, usually on behalf of someone else.
• The believer’s response to the creating, redeeming and sanctifying love of God.
• A way of life that includes the way we manage our whole redeemed lives and possessions.
• What we do after we say “we believe”.
• Caring for all that God has entrusted to us.
• The fruit of saving faith.
• The church in mission.
• The way we use the resources God has entrusted to us for the purposes to which the Lord has called us.

Trinity Lutheran Church suggests that stewardship is a growth process and that the growth stages in Christian Stewardship are as follows:

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