While it is necessary, when property and finance are involved, that legally appointed

Trustees should be responsible for the management and for the faithful fulfillment of

spiritual as well as general obligations, no work can hope to thrive or to remain stedfast

unless a sense of Trusteeship is living and active among all who form a part of any

society, even though, as in the case of The Berean Forward Movement, no `membership'

is desired or allowed.

Every reader of the Berean Expositor, every member of the Church which is the Body

of Christ is addressed as being `faithful' (Eph. 1: 1; Col. 1: 2), and faithfulness is the

outstanding quality in a steward (I Cor. 4: 1, 2) and faithfulness is the outstanding quality

in a steward (I Cor. 4: 1, 2). This stewardship will not allow us to say to our Lord's

creditors `Write down fifty' (Luke 16: 6), or as Paul puts it in II Cor. 2: 17:

We have been entrusted with a wondrous message which clings closely to the `sound

words' received from Paul and passed on down the age "To the faithful men, who shall

be able to teach others also" (II Tim. 1: 12-14; 2: 2). On the other hand, while we must

be `stedfast' and `unmoveable', that does not mean obdurateness. Only the stedfast can

at the same time successfully `abound' in the work of the Lord (I Cor. 15: 58).