Ours is a society which judges some people as being undeserving: these homeless ones, they must have brought it on themselves, why should we house them? These unemployed, how much tax have they paid, and do they deserve to benefit?

But in God’s economy where there is absolute gain for all. 

We must reflect on these things in the knowledge of this week’s news reports that if coronavirus job and income support schemes are wound down this autumn then twice as many people will become destitute by Christmas, in other words, unable to meet their basic needs for food, shelter or clothing. What does this say to us, we who seek to walk with Jesus’ and follow his teaching? What might it provoke us to do in response?

Are you envious because God is generous? Or are you inspired by the thought that there is room at his table for us all?

A talk for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, 20 September 2020.

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