There is a profound danger that comes with being entrusted with anything in life. Danger way beyond familiarity and that danger is Getting Attached. We should thus be careful to what degree we hold close what we are entrusted with: as long as it does not belong to us, we should hold it with a certain delicacy limited by ownership. No matter how close nor how long, it is important to know treating anything as if it is your own is different from addressing it as if it is your own. This discerning moment if kept alive would help all that are set in the place of a steward to do care for all things as if they were their own: but to not address them as their own.

It is critically important as it is devastatingly repercussive.

This brings up a curtain or demarcation of both approach and usage. If it does not belong to us: we need the owner's consent in all limits of usage and approach. Though familiarity do play a role in the issue of drawing that line, one should know and be well defined by the limits set and by the approach (Principle of Order) given or else they end up serving outside the scope of the one who sent them. Meaning they are liable for a replacement as they would have lost relevance and purpose to the owner of the sum of things. It is not just vital but also brutally critical to be defined in all that we do. A thing that draws from the approach or limit of order we do serve and exist under.

The pastor generally grows to feel like the church is his own; though a servant by pay: his closure and daily relations and being at the helm of what happens in the congregation's live may get too attached to a point where he figures the church his children. A thing that displaces God the Father in His house. The praise leader grows to feel like he owns the praise team. A thing that catches him/her nesting and protecting the team at a personal and not spiritual level, that brings bias in the service of God: a dire challenge to their stewardship, often even to the direct church leadership. The children's church leader gets attached to the children's church as his/her own children. It brings the bias of raising them with the personal attribute of their ideology of care and welfare: a thing that has to draw from a deep spiritual walk to keep the narrow.

It happens with time.

Though deliberately uncalled for, like a secret qualm it does eat like cancer until it grows out of proportion. It makes the soul winner feel like the sheep is his own, often compassion dragging them with the lambs beyond the bounds of Christianity; yet we should learn and earn a clarity. A clarity that the field belongs to a Lord and Master who is due. A thing that means we should now and then assault compassion to clear it to the young in the Lord that they are not our own; but they belong to a soon coming Master, a Groom to marry them for good.

A key reminder that we are preparing the soiled bride for a soon coming Groom. She is not our own and so she has a right to know. A right to know that we are but all facilitators the owner of the occasion is coming soon; so they as us should be making ready for Him.