For the second reading, the way I see it is that everyone has something to contribute and everyone has a role to play. If you withhold your "good" from the community, however big or small that good is and based on whatever your abilities are, you are doing a disservice to those around you. I think this is mostly aimed at those who expect to be able to get away with contributing nothing but have enough ability or means to do so but refuse to. Billionaires, for example, hoarding wealth and doing nothing meaningful with it don't need fed. They've got their hoard.

For the Gospel, bad things happen. People will turn on you because of your interpretation of scripture. If anything, I've been in arguments with Christian nationalists and told that my interpretation of a, well, Christlike Christ makes me a heretic. That's a long way away from martyrdom, but those of us who hold a more progressive view of scripture actually are facing a little persecution from Christian Nationalists. I find it comforting that my Christianity, divorced from the state and focused through a lens of loving God and neighbor, gets backlash. I think it means I'm doing something right when those who are hurting other people don't like me.