Rosenberg FUMC 9-20-20 Worship Service
Worship starts at 10am on Sunday as always! A few helpful links are below. Thanks for joining us!
Worship Order and notes for the service - https://bit.ly/3c7qhqV
Hope For All - an experimental new kind of meeting to have an open discussion about where we are as a church and where we hope to go. Mon. Sept 21st @ 10am via Google Meet* -
Coffee Hour Question Time - Sept. 23rd @ 10am - all are invited to check in weekly and discuss the question of the week via Google Meet* -
*Contact Pastor Jeremy if you've never used Google Meet before so that we can ensure you have the right settings or set up to join (jeremy@fumcrosenberg.net). You can also join with a phone call if you don't have the equipment or internet speed. Contact Jeremy if you need info on joining by phone call.
Question of the week - Can you name a time when you thought something unfair happened to you?
Prayer requests - https://forms.gle/5vZ7kKbeYmpHAp7m9
Online Giving - https://www.fumcrosenberg.net/give
Attendance - https://forms.gle/EDkmjhpZoNzMi4YW6
And don’t forget Sunday Morning Discussion Group on Facebook! - https://bit.ly/3jH1OuY
Matthew 20:1-16
20“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2After agreeing with the laborers for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. 3When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace; 4and he said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went. 5When he went out again about noon and about three o’clock, he did the same. 6And about five o’clock he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, ‘Why are you standing here idle all day?’ 7They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard.’ 8When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and then going to the first.’ 9When those hired about five o’clock came, each of them received the usual daily wage. 10Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received the usual daily wage. 11And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner, 12saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ 13But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage? 14Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you. 15Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ 16So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
1) Diving deeper into today’s scripture(s):
a) What words or phrases stand out to you?
b) Pick two or three of those words or phrases - where do you see these things in life? What is the meaning or role they play there?
c) With the same word or phrase - where else does it arise in scripture?
2) What would it look like for the world to be a fair place? How well does reality match up to that ideal?
3) Have you ever felt the struggle of how to be fair to someone you loved (maybe deciding how much time to split between parts of a family or how to ensure gifts are given equally)?
4) Can you name someone who loved you abundantly? What was unique or different about that relationship?
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