Stewardship
St. Francis Church Warden's Talk October 27, 1996 Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." (Matt 22:37-40.) When I left Wall Street three years ago, I decided to embark on a new career. I ended up starting three. In addition to the management consulting firm my brother Steve and I started, I became the Warden of the Vestry here at St. Francis', and also began publishing and reading verse, which had been my long-term avocation. With your indulgence, I would like to talk about stewardship in terms of these three viewpoints: businessman, churchman and writer. And look at stewardship first as meeting a financial need, second, as building a community of faith, and th...