Today's gospel is the story of 'The Compassionate Landowner'. In Jesus' time His parable would have been seen as dangerously radical. Here's why.....
When you are the person in charge of any large enterprise or organisation, away from the ‘front line’, it is almost inevitable that your managers will try and put a gloss on how things are going: they want to keep you happy; they want to look good in the eyes of their boss; and they don’t want you to know of any problems on their watch.
There’s only one way for any top boss to find out what is being done in their name. And that is, without warning, to turn up, at any hour of the day or night, and take a close-up look themselves.
The gospel reference is Matthew 20: 1-16.
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