We believe that we are called to follow Christ in a life of discipleship and that a significant part of that discipleship is a faithful use of all the resources of which God has made us stewards. We believe that all these resources, as well as our lives, are entrusted to us to use for the glory of God, for the furtherance of His kingdom, and for the benefit of others.
“This Call to Faithful Stewardship recognizes the pressures of our world to influence Christians to conform to its materialistic, accumulative, and consumptive values. Thus, there is a need for the church to call Christians to live by the teachings of Christ and His Word as faithful stewards. This is a call…to give special attention to faithful stewardship in the following ways: a call to receive gratefully…a call to manage faithfully…a call to share generously.”
Mennonite General Conference, statement in Proceedings (August 23-25, 1995), p. 26-28. Cf. Mark Vincent, A Christian View of Money: Celebrating God’s Generosity (Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 1997) 16-17.