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Monday, August 26, 2019

Understanding Mountain Sky Conference Mission Shares for 2020


Jesus spoke a lot about money. It was a topic he returned to repeatedly. Sometimes Jesus spoke about money helping with illustration: Luke 15: 8-10, the Parable of the Lost Coin is such an example. This parable is less about money than it is about what was once lost now being found, and the joy associated with that. Other times money carries a central focus to Jesus’ message. In Luke 19: 11-27, money, and how it is invested by various servants, plays a vital component in the parable. The familiar quote for many of us on rendering unto Caesar that which belongs to Caesar (Luke 20: 20-26) uses money as the illustrative and, arguably, key point in the establishment of priorities and values. My take on that passage is the Reign of God and the Reign of Caesar are not equals: the Reign of God is the more important.


One of the means we use as the people called United Methodists to support the Reign of God beyond the local church is the apportionment. In the Mountain Sky Conference we give the apportionment a symbolic name: Mission Shares. This Legacy Yellowstone term communicates quite well: we are asking local churches to use money to help share in the mission of the connectional church. That connectional church is the conference as well as the general boards and agencies that support the transformational mission of The United Methodist Church nationally and internationally.


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