Christian stewardship helps individuals and families develop loving relationships with our Savior, Jesus Christ. Christian stewardship provides a spirituality that the lay person can express at work and through personal involvement in family and community. Christian stewardship successfully bridges the material world around us to our human need to seek God. Embracing stewardship helps Christians to assess their faith in, and love of, Jesus. Christian stewardship is a way of life, not a program that has a beginning and an ending.
Christian stewardship takes a positive view of money.
It sees money not simply as a medium of exchange but as an indicator of the person's values. How we acquire it, use it, and share it reveals who we are. Christian stewardship helps us to become aware that God is the true source of the gifts we possess. These gifts must be shared and administered from our first fruits and not from what we might have left over. Stewardship teaches Christians to be concerned about where and how their parish's time, talent, and treasure can be shared with the Universal Church.