Daily Archives: June 7, 2008

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It’s Not Fair – part two

So the last will be first, and the first will be last.  Matthew 20:16 The modern concept of fairness is rooted in achieving justice. Biblically, however, both fairness and justice must be defined as doing things God’s way. From a Christian perspective, the only way to be fair is to apply God’s word accurately to a given situation. Is this the same thing as making sure each child gets the same number of minutes to play with a toy, or making sure that each child has the same number of toys to play with?  Not really. In the last post we looked at the parable of the workers in the vineyard to gain a biblical perspective on the concept of […]