Giving is about generosity. Stewardship is about responsibility. The radical notion of stewardship, which is probably why we hear so little about it, is that the resources of the world belong to God and not to us. The really radical part is that this applies just as much to our personal budgets as to the church budget. Stewardship begins with the resources in my possession that I turn over to the community.
Stewardship really begins after the tithe.
That is where we begin asking whether the resources committed to our care are being used for the greater glory of God by benefiting the greater good of the people of God. We have been overly focused on the ordained ministers of the church, overlooking the vast majority of the church's ministers - the laity, our real opportunity to further reconciliation and to proclaim the Gospel. Second, the church must reshape its hierarchical structure to a servanthood structure. This is not to advocate a failure of leadership. It is to say that the diocese and bishop exist to serve the local church, not the other way around.