Volume 6, Issue 10, January 10,2010
Volume 6, Issue 10, January 10,2010
Volume 6, Issue 10, January 10,2010
To prepare for the Master’s return, Jesus tells us that we need to “do for the least
of His little ones all that we can!” He calls us to love and care for one another be-
cause that is precisely what He has done for us. The master has entrusted us with
his most valuable possessions, one another. The moment that we become more
concerned with the organization rather than the organism we have buried the tal-
ent! When we compromise our relationships with each other, and cease to serve
and love each other because of liturgical ecclesiology, we have buried our talent.
When we make rules and regulations to govern how we ought to do church and
with them alienate another who does not agree, we bury our coin. When we look
at the world around us in an “Us Vs. Them” mentality thinking that we are better,
more righteous and holy, more deserving of salvation, then we have buried our
talent! God makes it significantly clear, through Jesus Words that we ought do the
very most for the very least, and in that doing, in that lifestyle we will be speaking
the language that we are supposed to speak; Christ!
While this parable speaks to us individually to be prepared for the Master’s return,
we must recognize its value for the body of Christ. As a body, we often bury out
talent by simply making our Sunday morning assembly the be-all-and-end-all of our
Christian walk. When doing church overtakes our desire to be church we have bur-
ied the talent. We have been called to a much deeper action than simply to exist
and maintain an assembly of saints. We are a nation of priests called to the Service
of the King.