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Ancient Faith, Modern Questions: “What If Grace Isn’t Fair?”

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In a world that measures our value by what we’ve earned compared to our neighbor, Jesus tells a story about a landowner who pays the workers hired last the same as those hired first. The all-day workers aren’t cheated; they’re offended that others were made equal to them. In this first sermon of our series Ancient Faith, Modern Questions, we ask what is fair, what we have earned, and what we are owed, and then a harder question: what do we owe our neighbor?