At the 2007 Christian Stewardship Association conference in Dallas I spoke about “holistic stewardship” and many people asked me how I defined the term. To me, holistic stewardship begins with God’s intention for His creation and His gracious decision to create humanity in God’s image. It is built further on the central Christian tenet that the God in whose image we have been created is the God we know in Jesus Christ. God’s self-revelation .

Most all Christians would agree that accountability is important to the process of growing as disciples of Jesus Christ. We seek accountability for ourselves and we agree to hold others accountable for the sake of spiritual development and public witness. In this way, true accountability is an integral part of carrying out the command to “make disciples.” Yet there is another aspect to accountability that is important to understand.  Accountability is a response to .

As God’s people we are called to be people of prayer. We are also called to live as godly stewards. And there is a powerful integration of these two callings, a rich interconnectedness that can ignite both a deeper prayer life and more passionate pursuit of godly stewardship. Scripture gives us an illustration of how we should pray and a theology of what it means to be a steward. As we look at each .

As Evangelicals our theological heritage and commitment to Biblical authority uniquely equip us to develop and practice a rich, holistic and uncompromising theology of stewardship. The goal of this chapter is to look at six evangelical theological convictions that form a theology of stewardship, namely a christocentric epistemology, the Trinity, the creation of humanity in the Imago Dei, the fall and the corruption of all creation by sin, the incarnation and atoning work of .