Episode 020: Matthew 20
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
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🗓️ 28 January 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Emma is joined by today's devo writer, Mary Sivils. Mary shares about her takeaways from Matthew 20. More specifically, Mary reminds us that salvation is a free gift. It isn't something we earn.
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| 0:00.0 | everybody what is going on you know what time it is you're listening to join the journey podcast |
| 0:05.7 | with your host emma daughter thanks for joining today i'm joined by a new friend mary civil's |
| 0:13.5 | hey guys what's up mary wrote today's devotional so i want the people listening to get to know you |
| 0:19.8 | mary tell us who are you and how long have you been at Watermark? |
| 0:24.6 | Well, my name is Mary, and I've been at Watermark for a really long time since 2002. And before Watermark had a |
| 0:31.6 | building, the body met at a local high school. And I was in the preschool ministry called Starting Blocks at that high school. No way. I was. And then after college, I got my master's and I was in the preschool ministry called Starting Blocks at that high school. |
| 0:37.5 | No way. |
| 0:38.2 | I was. And then after college, I got my master's and I worked in a psychiatric hospital before |
| 0:43.1 | hopping on to learn my Bible better and fall more in love with Jesus at the Watermark |
| 0:46.8 | Institute. |
| 0:47.9 | And so, okay, you're in the Watermark Institute. |
| 0:50.2 | Yep. |
| 0:50.5 | I went through the Watermark Institute a few years ago, and all of the Institute students got the |
| 0:56.0 | opportunity to write for Join the Journey, and you chose to write your devotional on Matthew 20, |
| 1:01.2 | today's passage. So really quickly, tell us what is Matthew 20 about? All right. So this chapter |
| 1:07.7 | is a parable told by Jesus about workers or laborers in a vineyard. |
| 1:12.7 | Some of the laborers start work in the vineyard really early in the morning, |
| 1:15.9 | and then the other laborers show up later in the day and start working. |
| 1:18.9 | But they're both paid the same amount. |
| 1:21.3 | The workers who start in the beginning think that it's unfair that the workers who come on later are paid the same amount. |
| 1:27.5 | Would you think that? |
| 1:28.6 | Absolutely. |
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