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 ( )

“… 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”

Grateful Caretaking Stewardship

Faith Time Talent Treasure Stewardship

Stewardship Community WORDWORD Evangelization WORSHIPWORSHIP JUSTICEJUSTICESERVICESERVICE Leadership 7 Essential Elements + 1 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 Self Questioning Serving

Stewardship Conversion

Tourists or Travelers? “Tourists are people who see things so that they can come home and talk about it…”

“Travelers don't think of home at all, and they know that they may never return…" Tourists or Travelers?

“…Francis, go rebuild my church!”

THE INFINITE

Sandbox Theology

♫…You better watch out, you better not shout…♫

Sin

Genesis 1: “In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth…”

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 Wisdom 11:22-12:2

Andrei Rublev ( )

LOVE

Andrei Rublev ( )

Love

Incarnati on

The Spirituality of Jesus

Affluenz a “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

GratitudeEntitlement Stewardshi p Ownershi p

Who am I?

Whose am I?

Stewardship: A Disciple’s Response “…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…”

Receive Cultivate Share Return

Gratefully Responsi bly 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 ( )

Copies of Presentation Fr. Michael L. Harvey, OFM Sts. Simon & Jude Church Magnolia Huntington Beach, CA (714) , extension