“How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.” – Psalm 104:24 (BSB)
“A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are only cruelty.” – Proverbs 12:10 (BSB)
“Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? … If that is how God clothes the grass of the field … will He not much more clothe you?” – Matthew 6:26, 30 (BSB)
“For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible… all things were created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.” – Colossians 1:16–17 (BSB)
This practice includes simple habits: reducing waste, conserving water and energy, planting gardens, treating animals kindly, and avoiding unnecessary consumption. Fr. Isaac Rehberg (ACNA, All Saints San Antonio, TX) explains, “The small choices of daily life—how we eat, what we throw away, what we buy—can reflect or distort the image of God in us. Stewardship makes those decisions holy.” (The Gospel in the Garden, 2020)
It also includes cultivating beauty, order, and fruitfulness wherever we live. Fr. Caleb Evans (Anglican Orthodox Church, St. Stephen’s Mission, GA) notes, “To plant, to repair, to beautify—these are sacred acts when done for love of the Lord. Stewardship is not only about restraint, but about blessing and building.” (The Earth is the Lord’s, 2021)
Worship and stewardship are connected. When we lift our eyes to God in praise, we are reminded that the world is His, and we are not its owners but its servants. Fr. Thomas Buchan (Anglican Union, St. Mark’s Anglican Church, VA) writes, “Every Eucharist reminds us: the earth is the Lord’s. As we receive from His hand, we must also care for what His hand has made.” (Liturgical Ecology, 2021)
Canon George Grant (ACNA, Parish Presbyterian Church, TN) adds, “We do not worship nature, but we worship God by how we treat His creation. Stewardship is doxology made visible—in the garden, the home, and the marketplace.” (Recovering Anglican Piety, 2019)
“He who wastes what is given him dishonors the Giver. Use what you need, and leave the rest with thanksgiving.” – John Chrysostom, Homily on Matthew 6, c. 390 AD
“God clothes the lilies and feeds the birds; shall we trample what He cherishes? Let us be gentle with all He has made.” – Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on the Psalms, c. 400 AD
“The earth, being made by God, is to be used in fear and reverence. The Christian walks upon it as upon holy ground.” – Cyprian of Carthage, On the Discipline of the Christian Life, c. 250 AD
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