Lectionary Message:  "Perhaps we need to take time to confess the ways that our approaches to money and our faith have been at odds with one another. We may need to take some time to discern and name the vast spiritual gifts and assets in the congregation that have nothing to do with money. What might it look like to pray for the church to live into God’s abundance instead of the world’s scarcity? How might you name all the ways Jesus has looked at the community with love, despite its struggles to live in God’s economy instead of society’s economy?" (umcdiscipleship.org)