Telling the Truth (Matthew 21:33-46)

As those who follow Jesus, our job is also to read the world in which we live, and to hold it up against the world God intends in God’s new creation. In other words, it’s our job to help paint a picture of the way we’re truly meant to live together—where everyone is taken care of, not just the high-rollers who have the power and the money live it up while making everyone else’s life miserable—those able to avoid paying their taxes and skate past the consequences of their actions, those able to get the best healthcare (the kind denied to the masses), those able to use or ignore those they consider beneath themselves.

Telling the truth about the world isn’t “divisive,” since true unity can’t be realized without truth-telling.