Even Me, God? (Parable Series #2)

The next several Mondays of the #ladypreacherpodcast will be focused on parables! These little short stories by Jesus share some pretty big truths. 

There are 55 parables in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke (though many of those repeat each other), but we will be studying 8 of them. Each one reveals to us something about who we are, who God is, what God’s Kin-dom is like, and who we are called to be as a part of that kin-dom.

Every week, we’ll dive into a different parable, and listen for how God is speaking to us through the text. Jesus spoke through parables so that he could put heaven’s truths into a modern context. They were stories his listeners could relate to and understand. So when we look at them in our modern context, we have to do some translating so we can understand what they would have meant to those hearing them in the 1st century. Hopefully, along the way, we’ll see where God is at work in our world here and now, and how we can be a part of that work.

This week we focus on Matthew 20:1-16, The Workers in the Vineyard. Most folks identify with the laborers who have worked all day and are frustrated that they are paid the same amount as those who have only worked for an hour, but if we step into the shoes of those laborers who only worked that one hour, we can see just how amazing the grace of God really is.