gentoobrotbh, I've never once seen that. All I find are people trying their best. And, Christians telling them they aren't doing enough.
Then we have attended completely different types of churches, full of completely different people.
Most of the church people I've been around seem to think that believing in God eliminates their obligation to work hard and be responsible. And I don't mean at their jobs. They go through very little personal growth because they put almost no effort into the truly hard parts of life: intellectual understanding and emotional maturity.
They sit in sermons, hear everything, but understand nothing. They go home and watch football or Netflix, while ordering pizza they can afford neither in the wallet nor the coronary artery. They never read anything philosophical on their own time, much less the Bible. They ship their kids off to horrible public schools to get indoctrinated by nutjobs. Then they end up divorcing, or in a horrible loveless marriage, because neither of them has learned to put their personal emotions aside for even a moment. And all along the way the say platitudes and ask for prayers that God will somehow magically solve their problems.
Their mouth will tell you they are trying their best and want to fix their problems. Their actions say otherwise when faced with basic steps like "pray for lower blood pressure, but also stop drinking soda" or "pray for a raise, but cancel your subscriptions in the meantime" or "pray for a better marriage, but also honestly consider the other person's concerns before yelling at them and storming out of the room" or "pray for a good wife, but also move somewhere that actually has available quality women then actually go out and socialize".
I've known a fair number of real Christians who are not like this, but they usually aren't church people. They can't stand the hypocrisy and heresy rampant in the churches. Sometimes they meet in the park or at someone's house, but it's no Church by any normal definition. No more so than the believers arguing on the fediverse constitute a church.
It just isn't the Gospel. And, has nothing to do with Jesus.
The parable of the talents is about using all the facilities God gave you the the maximum of your ability. The master's talents don't invest themselves, and the servant who didn't put those talents to work got scolded and punished. God gives everyone a little to start with and then gives more or takes away what they have based on what they do with it, and how earnestly, of course with some degree of grace because we are all flawed.
The world sucks right now, but that's life. Some of the harvesters worked all day, and some only an hour, but all were paid the same at the end of the day.
hazlin no plap pirate
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