I recently asked you to think about parenting as an act stewardship. Today I am asking that you consider all relationships in the context of stewardship. Earlier, in a sermon, I had said that salvation can be thought of in terms of healing relationships. Sinners are people who are estranged from God. There is pain and separation in our relationship with God and in our relationship with our neighbor.
Salvation is reconciliation.
It makes peace. You might say that the only way we can be good stewards is to always remember who we are. We are God's people and we have been purchased for a price. We might say that the only way we can be good stewards is to remember who others are. Our larger Christian tradition uses the term sanctification to describe the process of becoming the people God calls us to be.