"Living Generously" Romans 12:1-8 In the Parable of the Servants (Matthew 25:14-30), Jesus tells us that we will be held accountable for how we invest what he's entrusted to us. Jesus uses the illustration of "talents," which is a financial term, but the principle is much broader. For a church to thrive, each person who's part of it must invest what God has given him or her, and that's what we'll look at this morning.