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The Upside Down World, Week 8, Day 5

by David Joynt on November 02, 2017


MATTHEW 20:9-10


In the passage, it seems so unfair that the workers are paid the same amounts for different hours of labor. This means their hourly rates were different, some who worked a single hour were paid at 10x the rate of those who’d worked an entire day. These higher rates were not bonuses, paid because of the unusual excellent of their work, but unmerited pay. Think about your own work experiences. Have you been in situations where some employees did less and others more, yet all were paid equally? Did this create resentment? Jesus raises a key issue for us—when we work, what is the source of our satisfaction?



Do you work in order to serve God? To express your gifts and vital powers? To honor your contract? To accomplish goals?



FAMILY TIME— Talk about why God encourages us to work.

Tags: labor, work


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