When they're ready to rebuild, maybe we can help by buying a few pews or some carpeting for their nursery. These are small things, little contributions, but I believe they will grow. If we can get twenty other churches to adopt Metropolitan Baptist, and each church buys a few pews, we can replace all the pews. If each church chips in for some carpet, we can put carpet in the whole church. If we can get fifty Rotary Clubs to award scholarships, we can help fifty seniors at Tarboro High to get to college.
Small things can grow, multiply, and make a big difference.
Jesus told the story of the talents to remind us that we all have something to give. It's interesting that our word talent finds it roots in this word that originally represented a measure of money. In this parable Jesus is telling us that we each have been given a measure, God has given us gifts, talents, skills, resources. God has given these things to us, but they are not just for us, they are to be used. I see it happen around here everyday.