Stewardship Is Upon Us!

Hello again, Shiloh!

With October now here, we've reached a very exciting time of year... Stewardship Month! We've spent the last several months building up to this by trying to show that there is so much more to stewardship than many of us may have thought, and now it is time to act. Stewardship is knocking on our door, Shiloh, but will we answer? Will we realize that there is so much that each of us can do to help bring about Kingdom by acting out God's will? Will we put the focus back on our relationships with God, letting all of our actions in the physical realm be reflections of the grace that we've been given? Or will we continue to shrug it all off and be happy with the path we've been led down by our own humanity?

The time has come, Shiloh, for this new kind of stewardship. Stewardship that focuses more on giving of yourself than of your checkbook. Of making sacrifices that may seem out of the ordinary at first in order to better the lives of others. A stewardship that illustrates our love for others, including those who differ from ourselves, by accepting that we are all brothers and sisters in grace.

The old ways of stewardship may have seemed to work in the past, but we've become so misguided. It is time to take back our stewardship, and regain ownership of our spirituality, because stewardship is about so much more than taking care of our church. It is about fostering our own spiritual development, and bringing about Kingdom by living God's will in the world.

Justin Sierschula