NARRATOR: Someone in the crowd spoke to Jesus.
PERSON: Jesus, tell my brother to give me my share of our inheritance.
JESUS: Friend, who has set me to be a judge or arbiter over you?
NARRATOR: Then Jesus spoke to the crowd.
JESUS: Take care. Avoid greed in all its forms. For one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.
NARRATOR: Jesus told the crowd this parable.
JESUS: The land of a rich person produced abundantly. He thought to himself.
RICH FOOL: What shall I do? I have no place to store my harvest. I know. I will pull down my grain bins and build larger ones. All my grain and my goods will go there. Then I will say to myself: You have blessings in reserve for years to come. Relax! Eat heartily, drink well. Enjoy yourself.
GOD: You fool! This very night your life will be demanded of you. To whom will all this piled-up wealth of yours go?
JESUS: That is the way it works with those who grow rich for themselves instead of growing rich in the sight of God.
Luke 12.13-21
Sunday Readings: Ecclesiastes 1.2; 2.21-23, Colossians 3.1-5, 9-11, Luke 12.13-21