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Stewardship in the Old Testament.
Stewardship in the Bible is about generosity and hospitality--God's generosity and hospitality first, and therefore also ours. When Sarah and Abraham showed generosity and hospitality to three strangers, who dropped by their house one day, it resulted not only in the reassurance that Sarah would have a child within a year, but it established them as models of what stewardship means (Gen 18:1-15). The author of Hebrews admonishes us readers: "Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it" (Heb 13:2).
The Ceremony of the First Fruits Deuteronomy 26 talks about a simple ceremony at harvest time when a farmer took the first fruits of the grain harvest, for them in a bas...See the full content of this document
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