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July 19, 2007
Everything is on the table
The SDA summer meeting could easily be described as being inspiring and overwhelming all at the same time. There is definitely a consenus that the teaching of Biblical Stewardship has all but evaporated from church discipleship programs. Further, it is often reduced to fundraising and capital campaigns.
I sensed that many in the room understood the need to revisit and redefine the role of Biblical Stewardship in the life of the church and in the life of the believer. The question is how do we go about doing that.
As a professor once told me, the worst thing you can do when asking questions is to try to find an answer before you have lived into the question.
We are asking the questions. Now we must live into those questions. In doing so, we'll find our answers. But it may mean that change must take place within how church leaders approach stewardship too. It may mean that we start from "square one" and lay everything on the table.
Posted by bstroup at July 19, 2007 10:25 AM
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