“Because of the lack of sound teaching on stewardship, the image of the steward offered by the church has become blurred. Perhaps the primary understanding today of the term steward is one who shares one’s own resources with others. Here the characteristic mark of the biblical steward—handling with integrity the resources of another—is completely lost. Being a godly steward has been reduced to nothing more than being a good investor or philanthropist or business owner. While these are all vestiges of what being a steward might look like, they miss the mark by staying in an “ownership frame” that is completely foreign to the biblical notion of steward. This is an image that will be hard to unseat in the church.”
R. Scott Rodin Stewards in the Kingdom: A Theology of Life in all its Fullness (IVP: Downers Grove, IL, 2000) 28.
The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it, the world and all who live in it. Psalm 24:1