members’ level of stewardship as a means of gauging their spiritual growth. Unlike some of the other spiritual disciplines we talk about so often, such as daily time in the Bible and prayer, stewardship is something we can teach and then track. We can observe the extent to which our people digest and apply the teaching. We can train our people on immersing themselves in Scripture, but we have no idea whether they really are. We can exhort prayer until we are blue in the face, but we have no way to
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