Passionate Steward - 10th Anniversary Edition

“ The Passionate Steward by Michael O’Hurley-Pitts gives a refreshing
look at stewardship as true ministry. Not just another fund-raising
manual for the church; rather, stewardship is understood as a personal
commitment to Christ, actually living the Gospel and Liturgical life.
Stewardship must be understood as a complete identity for the Christian.
The whole Church of Jesus Christ is called to be a steward of God’s
mission on earth. As the Church engages in God’s mission, we become
identified, both Christian and Church, as true stewards. Our participation
in mission grows out of true stewardship. God calls us to the work of
missions because we are stewards. Once this understanding takes hold,
funding our missions will no longer be a concern nor a problem, and
there will be no further need for secularized gimmicks, something
totally antithetical to the teachings of Christ. Michael O’Hurley-Pitts has
captured the essence of this in his masterpiece.”
Chris Andreas, Stewardship Administrator
Greek Orthodox Church, New York, New York
“ This is an important work, relevant for those who live and work in the
church community. The Passionate Steward illustrates that stewardship
is much more than a donor’s economic exchange or the management of
their wealth. Stewardship has the qualities of faith and prayer.”
Tom Cullinan, Esquire
Director, National Planned Giving Institute
College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
“ Michael O’Hurley-Pitts is not afraid to espouse and advocate an
explicitly theological understanding of stewardship and to criticize the
ways in which the Church has misled itself... O’Hurley-Pitts has
written a provocative book which provides much food for thought as
well as some concrete strategies for the understanding and the doing of
Christian stewardship, wherever we find ourselves.”
Donn F. Morgan
Professor of Old Testament
Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Anglican Theological Review