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The Board of Trustees

By Linda Tancs

A board of trustees is the appointed or elected governing body of an entity like a non-profit organization, university, hospital or charitable foundation, responsible for ensuring the organization fulfills its mission. In God’s economy, we’re all members of His board of trustees. We’re entrusted with things like protecting the gospel message (2 Timothy 1:14) and using our unique spiritual gifts as good stewards of God’s grace (1 Peter 4:10). In the Parable of the Talents, Jesus tells of a master who entrusts his goods to his servants while he is away, expecting them to invest and increase them (Matthew 25:14-30). What kind of board member are you?

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You’re Not Taking Up Space

By Linda Tancs

Have you ever felt like you’re just on planet Earth taking up space? It’s easy to succumb to that kind of thinking when you’re feeling powerless, defeated, despondent. Maybe you feel like you haven’t lived up to your expectations or those of others. Consider Jesus’s Parable of the Talents (see, e.g., Matthew 25:14). In that parable, a master puts his servants in charge of his goods while he is away on a trip and, upon his return, he assesses their stewardship. Every servant has a role to play; no one is excluded. In the same way that the master put his servants in charge of his goods, God has entrusted His life to you. In other words, He’s placed His gifts and talents on the inside of you. With such a priceless conveyance, you could never be here just taking up space. You have a mission, a destiny (Jeremiah 29:11). There’s no room for doubt, but there’s plenty of room for you.

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