"Quid pro Quo: How to Polish Your Halo"
Life is a _______ —and we will be examined on the basis of our _____________ .
- "Each according to his __________ ." (v 15)
- David A. Redding in Parables He Told:
"All men are created ____________ in God's country in everything except legal rights. God will not grade on the curve or by some arbitrary standard. Each man will be matched against his own ability and opportunity. . . . God is going to expect more from Chicago than the Congo. The flat rate practice is foreign to Christianity." (24)
- The clue that life is a test: "You have been faithful with a _______ things." (v 21)
- Eugene Peterson in The Message renders v 21: "Good work! You did your job well. From now on be my ____________ ."
- Life is a _______ —and we will be examined on the basis of our _____________ .
So what are you investing for your Master?
- One thing we must not do is despair over the fact that there are some who have _______ than we do!
- All we're asked to __________ for is what we've been ____________ with.
- Jesus: "To whom much is ________ , much will be _________ ."
- David Redding: "God is going to be hardest of all on the ________ ."
- Richard John Neuhaus: "It is a fearful thing to be __________ ."
And what shall we do with what we've been given?
- Luke 19:13—"‘Put this money to __________ , until I come back.'"
- Invest it all!
- "Freely you have received; freely give"—or—"Freely you have been entrusted; now freely invest."
- "Continual _________ starves ____________ to death." (3T 548)
How to polish your halo and prepare for heaven?
- ______ and ________ and ________ .
Answers: test, investments, ability, unequal, few, partner, test, investments, more, answer, entrusted, given, required, best, chosen, work, giving, covetousness, Give, give, give.