“Young converts should be taught that they have renounced the ownership of all their possessions, and of themselves, or if they have not done this they are not Christians. They should not be left to think that any thing is their own, their time, property, influence, faculties, bodies or souls. “Ye are not your own;” (1 Cor. 6:19-20) all belongs to God; and when they submitted to God they made a free surrender of all to him, to be ruled and disposed of at his pleasure…It is just as much a matter of discipline for a church member practically to deny his stewardship as to deny the divinity of Christ.”
Charles Finney (1792-1875) in “Instructions to Young Converts” from Lectures on Revivals of Religion (New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., 1835) 371-372.