It is consequently questionable to draw a dichotomy between spiritual and temporal matters.
Stewardship expresses spirituality.
We worship usually not in thin air but in real physical buildings, our bodies warmed by furnaces or cooled by air conditioners. Worship makes use of space and time, and we do well to attend to what we do with both space and time within worship. Once we have seen and heard that, we are reconnected to the treasure of our existence in time and space. The blood of the martyrs is the paradigm of our pilgrimage on this earth of space and time. He originally wrote this reflection in 1998.