It was Simon Sinek who revolutionized the way businesses think about themselves.
Instead of thinking about what a company does or how they do it, companies should think about why they do what they do.
Today’s passage helps us understand our why as Christians.
Firstly, what do we do? We care for God’s creation, including our neighbors because we’re stewards of our master’s “household.”
How do we do this? By preaching the gospel and through servant-leadership?
And, finally, why do we do it?
Well, the English translation hides the why. The word that’s translated as “household” is actually θεραπεία, the word for “healing.”
So, this tells us that we are called to be stewards and care for others so that all nations can find healing through Christ’s sacrifice on the cross.
If we lose track of this why, then we’re no longer the stewards God calls us to be.
The Reading
And the Lord said, “Who is the faithful, the prudent steward, whom the lord will appoint over the household (θεραπεία) attendants, to give them their rations at the proper time? How happy that slave whom his lord, on coming, will find doing so. I tell you truly that he will place him in charge over all his possessions. But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My lord takes a long time in coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and both to eat and to drink, and to become drunk, That slave’s lord will come on a day he does not expect and in an hour he does not know, and will cut him to pieces and assign him a portion with the faithless. And that slave who has known his lord’s will, and has not made preparations or acted according to his will, will be beaten with many blows. But the one who has not known, but has done things worthy of a thrashing, will be beaten with few blows. And to everyone to whom much was given, from him much will be demanded, and from the one to whom much has been entrusted they will request far more.” (Luke 12:42-48)