Center for Stewardship

If we are to understand this Commandment (Fourth Commandment), we must recognize that Christian stewards are entrusted with an inheritance out of the past. This comes to us from our parents, from the state and from the church. And this is clearly God’s plan. We do not start fresh with each new generation. We receive from the generations their accumulated wisdom and accomplishments; then we are called to carry on in the period of our own stewardship.

Raymond Olson, Stewards Appointed: Ten Studies in Christian Stewardship based on Luther's Small Catechism, page 33.