Episode 074: The Parable of the Laborers—Grace in Action

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What is it about God's generosity that's so hard to trust? In this episode, Cynthia and Susan discuss The Parable of the Laborers, in which Jesus turns the idea of fairness on its head with a story that disregards the rules we insist are so important. It's a reminder that the kingdom of heaven runs on grace, and all our careful scorekeeping and human expectations of scarcity will someday be confounded by God's abundance, so we may as well get used to it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to at last she said it. A podcast where women of faith come together to
0:06.9	acknowledge that it's complicated and support each other while we figure it out.
0:17.2	And so I've often wondered, you know, in our church culture why a scarcity mindset seems to be so appealing to us or at least so prevalent, you
0:21.4	know, if we don't actively choose it it it sure does show up a lot so I would say we seem to prefer it you know the idea that I get something and so somebody else gets
0:29.9	less right right right and and maybe it has something to do with thinking of ourselves as God's
0:35.1	chosen people, right? If we're chosen, then that implies that someone else is
0:39.8	less chosen. Hello friends, welcome back to the podcast.
0:46.5	I am Cynthia Wynward and I'm here with Susan Hinckley.
0:50.5	How are you today, Susan?
0:52.1	Hello Cynthia, I'm great.
0:54.0	I'm happy to be here, but it is December.
0:56.0	We're recording this in December.
0:58.0	I know.
0:59.0	It's just a busy time,
1:01.0	so it feels really good to me to get to take a break and think about something else for a minute.
1:08.6	So yeah, I'm thrilled to be here.
1:10.4	It was a long answer.
1:11.6	I could have just said I'm thrilled. How are you?
1:14.0	You're thrilled and I'm thrilled to be here as well, but the older I get, the more overwhelmed I feel
1:20.0	by Christmas. Oh, me too.
1:23.0	I don't know why that's happening.
1:24.4	So yeah, let's put all the Christmese
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