Stewardship then is the manner in which those resources are used. The wise and profitable manner in which those resources are taken care of. When we speak of stewardship in a biblical sense, we speak of God as the master and ourselves as the servants. We speak of all the gifts that God gives us, our time and our talents, the resources of this world as well as our financial resources. We speak of all these things as the things that God gives to us to use on His behalf.
Stewardship is a rather broad concept.
It embraces all that we have and all that we do as human beings. In her book, Firstfruits, Managing the Master's Money by Lillian Grissen, she gives a definition of biblical stewardship and I'd like to encourage you to pick up a copy in the library. If you really want to understand what stewardship is about, pick up one of these copies and it's a wonderful reading. If you want to put it even shorter than that, stewardship is using everything that we have and everything that we are so that God might be glorified. I believe that a part of the reason that stewardship is confusing and an unfamiliar concept to many of us, is the fact that in our world today the thought of taking care of something for someone else is not very attractive.