There are many reasons for the failure to comprehend Christ

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There are many reasons for the failure to
comprehend Christs teaching . . . but the chief
cause which has engendered all these
misconceptions is this That Christs teaching
is considered to be such as can be accepted, or
not accepted, without changing ones life.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
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discipleship is a privilege beyond all other
privileges
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Cheap Grace

• To follow Jesus and work to build a community of
  disciples only when it is convenient and only
  when it works into our personal agenda

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Costly Grace

• If we desire true liberation and eternal life, we
  need to put aside the personal craving for
  domination, possession, and control and together
  build a community of loving disciples.

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Gospel Stewardship
Costly Grace
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Grateful Caretaking
Stewardship
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Stewardship

• Faith
• Time
• Talent
• Treasure

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7 Essential Elements 1
Evangelization
W O R D
W O R S H I P
J U S T I C E
S E R V I C E
Leadership
Community
Stewardship
Dr. Mary Ann Gubish, PhD
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Acknowledgments

• Stewardship Stewardship A Disciples Response
• Stewardship Office Diocese of Orange
• Sharon Hueckel
• Bishop Robert Moreno
• Bishop Sylvester Ryan
• Archbishop Thomas Murphy
• Resource Journal
• Revisioning the Parish Pastoral Council
• Dr. Mary Ann Gubish

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We plant seeds that one day will grow
Archbishop Oscar Romero Martyr
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Moses
40 40 40 120
Self Questioning Serving
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Stewardship

• Conversion

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Tourists or Travelers?

• Tourists are people who see things so that they
  can come home and talk about it

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Tourists or Travelers?

• Travelers don't think of home at all, and they
  know that they may never return"

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Francis, go rebuild my church!
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THE INFINITE
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Sandbox Theology
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?You better watch out, you better not shout?
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Sin
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Genesis 1 1-31
In the beginning when God created the heavens
and the earth
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SIN / GRACE
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• Before the Lord the whole universe is as a grain
  from a balance or a drop of morning dew come down
  upon the earth. But you have mercy on all,
  because you can do all things and you over look
  peoples sins that they may repent.
• For you love all things that are and loathe
  nothing that you have made for what you hate,
  you would not have fashioned and how could a
  thing remain, unless you willed it or be
  preserved, had it not been called forth by you?
• But you spare all things, because they are yours,
  O Lord and lover of souls, for your imperishable
  spirit is in all things! Therefore you rebuke
  offenders little by little, warn them and remind
  them of the sins they are committing, that they
  may abandon their wickedness and believe in you,
  O Lord!
• Wisdom 1122-122

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Andrei Rublev (1360-1430)
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Andrei Rublev (1360-1430)
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Incarnation
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The Spirituality of Jesus
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Affluenza

• A painful, contagious, socially transmitted
  condition of overload, debt and waste resulting
  from the dogged pursuit of more. . .

Affluenza The All-consuming Epidemic by Scott
Simon
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Gratitude
Entitlement
Stewardship
Ownership
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Who am I?
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Whose am I?
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Stewardship A Disciples Response

• Good Stewards receive Gods gifts gratefully,
  cultivate them responsible, share them lovingly
  and justly with others and return them with
  increase to the lord

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• Receive
• Cultivate
• Share
• Return

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• Gratefully
• Responsibly
• Lovingly
• Justly
• Increase

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• Receive
• Cultivate
• Share
• Return

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Head Heart Gut
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• What is my image of God? Is my God a God of
  abundance or is my God limited?
• What is my understanding of Stewardship?
• What did Jesus mean when he spoke often about a
  good steward?
• In terms of stewardship what did Jesus expect
  of his followers?

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There are many reasons for the failure to
comprehend Christs teaching . . . but the chief
cause which has engendered all these
misconceptions is this That Christs teaching
is considered to be such as can be accepted, or
not accepted, without changing ones life.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
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