There are many reasons for the failure
to comprehend Christ’s teaching . . .
but the chief cause which has engendered
all these misconceptions is this:
That Christ’s teaching
is considered to be such as can be accepted,
or not accepted,
without changing one’s life.
— Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
“… discipleship is a privilege
beyond all other privileges …”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Cheap Grace”
“To follow Jesus and work to build a
community of disciples only when it is
convenient and only when it works into
our personal agenda…”
“Costly Grace”
If we desire true liberation and eternal life,
we need to put aside the personal craving
for domination, possession, and control
and together build a community of loving
disciples.
Gospel Stewardship
“Costly Grace”
Stewardship
Grateful Caretaking
Stewardship
• Faith
• Time
• Talent
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Treasure
7 Essential Elements + 1
Evangelization
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Community
Stewardship
Dr. Mary Ann Gubish, PhD
Acknowledgments
• Stewardship “Stewardship: A Disciple’s Response”
• Stewardship Office Diocese of Orange
• Sharon Hueckel
• Bishop Robert Moreno
• Bishop Sylvester Ryan
• +Archbishop Thomas Murphy
• Resource Journal
• Revisioning the Parish Pastoral Council
Dr. Mary Ann Gubish
“We plant seeds that one day will grow…”
Archbishop Oscar Romero – Martyr
Moses
40
Self
40
Questioning
40
Serving
120
Stewardship
Conversion
Tourists or Travelers?
“Tourists are
people who see
things so that
they can come
home and talk
about it…”
Tourists or Travelers?
“Travelers
don't think of
home at all,
and they know
that they may
never return…"
“…Francis, go rebuild my church!”
THE INFINITE
Sandbox Theology
♫…You better watch out,
you better not shout…♫
Sin
“In the beginning
when God created the heavens
and the earth…”
Genesis 1: 1-31
SIN / GRACE
Before the Lord the whole universe is as a grain from a
balance or a drop of morning dew come down upon the earth.
But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things; and
you over look people’s sins that they may repent.
For you love all things that are and loathe nothing that you
have made; for what you hate, you would not have fashioned
and how could a thing remain, unless you willed it: or be
preserved, had it not been called forth by you?
But you spare all things, because they are yours, O Lord and
lover of souls, for your imperishable spirit is in all things!
Therefore you rebuke offenders little by little, warn them and
remind them of the sins they are committing, that they may
abandon their wickedness and believe in you, O Lord!
Wisdom 11:22-12:2
Andrei Rublev
(1360-1430)
LOVE
LOVE
LOVE
Andrei Rublev (1360-1430)
Love
Love
Love
Love
Incarnation
The Spirituality of Jesus
Affluenza
“A painful, contagious, socially
transmitted condition of overload,
debt and waste… resulting from the
dogged pursuit of more. . .”
Affluenza: The All-consuming Epidemic
by Scott Simon
Gratitude
Entitlement
Stewardship
Ownership
Who am I?
Whose am I?
“…Good Stewards receive God’s
gifts gratefully, cultivate them
responsible, share them lovingly and
justly with others and return them
with increase to the lord…”
Stewardship: A Disciple’s Response
• Receive
• Cultivate
• Share
• Return
• Gratefully
• Responsibly
• Lovingly
• Justly
• Increase
• Receive
• Cultivate
• Share
• Return
Head | Heart | Gut
•What is my image of God? Is my
God a God of abundance or is my
God limited?
•What is my understanding of
Stewardship?
•What did Jesus mean when he spoke
often about a “good steward”?
•In terms of “stewardship” what did
Jesus expect of his followers?
There are many reasons for the failure
to comprehend Christ’s teaching . . .
but the chief cause which has engendered
all these misconceptions is this:
That Christ’s teaching
is considered to be such as can be accepted,
or not accepted,
without changing one’s life.
— Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Copies of Presentation
Fr. Michael L. Harvey, OFM
Sts. Simon & Jude Church
20444 Magnolia
Huntington Beach, CA 92646
(714) 962-3333, extension 237
Email: mharvey@ssj.org