RE: “For stewardship to be taught properly, it must start with the Law.”

It seems to me that a better place to begin is not with the words of the Law, but with the Giver of the Law and what he wants for us. For it is from God’s very nature and his disposition toward his chosen people that he always speaks to us — in words of Law, Gospel, encouragement, admonishment, guidance, wisdom, instruction, exhortation, assurance, etc. (2 Tim. 3:16-17).

“God is love” (1 John 4:8), and “his steadfast love endures forever” (Ps. 136). And out of that love he has given our lives a purpose — to receive his good gifts and be fruitful with them, as he himself counts fruitfulness, to his glory and our joy (Gen. 1:28; John 15:8, 11).