The Parable of the Talents took on new meaning recently for members of Newsong Church in Grove, Oklahoma. That’s when Pastor Steve Dyer handed out $14,000 to congregation members with instructions to invest the funds for seven weeks, then bring the money and profits back to the church to be used in missionary work.<\/p>\n
Members of the 125-member congregation ripped open envelopes containing $100 and $50 bills after the Sunday sermon. According to a Feb. 15, 2005, Associated Press story, Dyer had placed crisp $100 bills in red envelopes for adults and $50 bills in green envelopes for school-age children. “That is going to be a lot of fun,” Dyer said. “A lot of people already have ideas.”<\/p>\n
Dyer said the church isn’t keeping track of who has the money, but did give one stipulation: It was not to be used to buy lottery tickets or to gamble.<\/p>\n
When asked what the church will do if someone steals the money, Dyer replied, “That’s between them and God.” <\/p>\n
The Parable of the Talents took on new meaning recently for members of Newsong Church in Grove, Oklahoma. That’s when Pastor Steve Dyer handed out $14,000 to congregation members with instructions to invest the funds for seven weeks, then bring the money and profits back to the church to be used in missionary work. Members … Continue reading “Pastor Hands out Money”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}