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Steven F Kindle. Stewardship

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God’s Way of Recreating the World

Steve Kindle

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This is not as easy as it seems on first blush. In a previous book.4 I discussed how difficult it is to agree on biblical teaching. I suggested a method of interpreting the Bible called a canon within the Canon. This is an effort to approximate or summarize the essence of biblical teaching and compare portions of the Bible to it. Fortunately, for this study, promoting a specific interpretive model is not necessary. I suspect most parties to this discussion will agree with the larger points made, as most models arrive at the same conclusions. So why this book? Because, although most will agree with its understanding of stewardship, few actually incorporate these findings in the day-to-day operation of congregations or in their own lives. Stewardship is seen as a mere tool, not a way of life. This book is a challenge to make stewardship the controlling idea of congregational and individual life.

Those involved with other religions and their adherents soon discover that they all are concerned with the same thing: discovering and promoting the purpose of life. The differences are many and profound in how they go about this, but in the final analysis, they are pursuing their understanding of how to live properly in our world.

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