The Cost of Doing Business (Matthew 21:33-46)
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The killings continue. Servants are still sent to the vineyard. And these servants still cry out against the violent and unjust caretakers. Servants still proclaim that God isn’t okay with how people in power continue to look out for their own interests ahead of the vineyard's well-being.
Because here’s the thing: people are still being neglected in the vineyard at the hands of those in charge, those who’ve been entrusted to protect the vulnerable and the powerless, to care for the widow and the orphan, to welcome the stranger, to bind up the wounds of the brokenhearted, and to make certain that no one exploits or harms those who’re constantly the targets of the wicked: children, the elderly, the impoverished, the sick, and those on the margins.
But, according to the story, the owner’s unwilling to let the vineyard go, unwilling to ignore the distress of ordinary people.
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