Your faith has saved you
Proper 23, Year C
Grace Church
October 10, 2010

I have a confession to make. I hate talking about stewardship. I hate thinking about stewardship, I hate preaching about stewardship. OK? I hate doing it as your rector. I hated it when I was on your side of things and sat in the pews listening to sermons and stewardship appeals and the like. It’s one of those things that come around every year and makes us uncomfortable in so many ways. We feel guilty for not pledging, or not pledging enough. We may feel guilty because we think we ought to be tithing and we know in our hearts that’s never gonna happen because we live from paycheck to paycheck with never quite enough money for the necessities of life, let alone to give to those worthy organizations that need our support, and to give to our church. A pledge is one of those obligations, those duties, one of those things I think I need to do. So I tend to put my annual pledge in the basket with feelings of guilt and often resentment. Continue reading →