Stewardship is our joyful, grateful response to God by which we accept responsibility for the kind of world in which we live and the kind of world God is determined to make. A Covenant of Financial Life. . . . Both the Old and New Testaments teach that all we have is a gift from God. As God's stewards and people of faith, we are taught to bring to God the first fruits. For many Christians, money is symbolic of the first fruits, and the faithful use of it is a source of great blessing.
Money is important.
It is the medium we use to accomplish many of the church's goals, and it is through money that we participate in aspects of the church's mission that would otherwise be closed to us. Our generous financial support enables the church's ministries of proclamation and justice-seeking, of service and compassion, locally, nationally, and internationally. Thus, a commitment of money as a spiritual discipline is at the heart of our Christian responsibility.