parables

I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.

Being popular doesn__ always win spiritual change. Christ didn__ pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any degree of manners when he cleansed the temple. His harshness drew a point__o make people realize how much better they could become.

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people__ satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.

By telling stories, Jesus isn__ somehow putting sugar in a spoon to make the medicine go down a bit easier. These stories are the medicine. These stories are an extension and explanation of Jesus_ revolutionary ministry. These stories show us that things are not as they appear. Our tidy, well-packaged ideas about spirituality, faith, and reality shatter when confronted by Christ and the God he represents.

Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.

judgment, as it is portrayed in the parables of Jesus (not to mention the rest of the New Testament) never comes until after acceptance: grace remains forever the sovereign consideration. The difference between the blessed and the cursed is one thing and one thing only: the blessed accept their acceptance and the cursed reject it; but the acceptance is already in place for both groups before either does anything about it.

The way some people read the parables reminds me of Aesop's Fables. And the way others read them reminds me of the way some discern clue after perplexing clue in their Beatle albums as evidence for a cover-up of Paul's having died in a car accident.

Jesus taught in parables for a reason.

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Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter.the Tai Chi instructor