Prayer: Heavenly Father, turn our hearts towards heaven and transform our minds to think like you so we may be generous towards others. Remind us that when our heart and treasure lie in heaven, we are rich in you. In your Holy name we pray, Amen.
Reading: Luke 12:13-21 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: In the Parable of the Rich Fool Jesus describes a man who stores up his abundance of food for himself. Jesus then warns who is listening (or now reading) that you should not store up things for yourself without being rich towards God. This reminds me of a passage in Matthew (6:19-21) that warns where you store your treasures, your heart will be also, and so that means this rich fool’s heart lays in his piles and piles of grain. Does that sound like he is showing generosity and love towards those less fortunate? It sounds to me like he is not storing his treasures in heaven… This summer at camp our curriculum is all about transforming community, and one of the ways our campers learn to transform community is with generosity. We read a story of the early church community whose minds were renewed by Christ so that they knew to be kind and generous to others. Sharing the communion meal was one way they did so, and I think the rich fool could take a page of their book and share (or “break”) his grain with others. Then his treasure AND his heart would be in heaven, knowing that his treasures on earth are merely temporary. --Anne Harshbarger
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