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Rooted in Abundance | Exodus 16:2-15, Matthew 20:1-16 | 9.20.26
Rooted in Abundance | Exodus 16:2-15, Matthew 20:1-16 | 9.20.26
What happens when grace refuses to play by the rules of fairness? In this week's sermon, we sit with Jesus' unsettling parable of the workers in the vineyard — a landowner who hires laborers at dawn, at noon, and even an hour before quitting time, then pays every single one of them the same wage. Drawing on a story about becoming "founding member" of Atlanta United, this sermon digs into why this parable feels so instinctively unfair to us — and why that discomfort might be exactly the ...