Bags of Gold

Another parable this week, another illustration of the time of Jesus's return and how his followers should be acting during the wait.

This time, it's a rich man going away, leaving three of his servants in charge of his wealth returning to find that two out of three have been excellent investors and have given him a big return on his investment, while the third digs the money out of the ground where he had hidden it and returns what he had been given with no return.

Two are rewarded, one is punished.

This is a troubling parable (as are the other two in Matthew 25) because it seems to imply that there is something more required for our salvation than the five solas (grace, faith, scripture, Christ, to God's glory) that so many are celebrating this year, the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation. The parable doesn't seem to refer to any of these foundation statements but does seem to put a lot of emphasis on work and being rewarded for  hard and smart labour.

Is this really the teaching here?

Join us Sunday morning as we unpack this parable and its application to our lives and for our community.