The Parables 2020 - The Unjust Judge & the Persistent Widow
The Table Community Church (Belgrade)
English - August 30, 2020 22:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBNon-Profit Business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Bible scholar C.H Dodd said of parables, “At its simplest, the parable is a metaphor or simile drawn from nature or common life, arresting the hearer by its vividness or strangeness, and leaving the mind in sufficient doubt to its precise application to tease the mind into active thought.” Parables are meant to instill a healthy doubt about the direction we are naturally inclined to move in life and then reorient us towards life in the Kingdom. Parables frustrate our flesh, yet they free us to live as God intended, towards joy, wholeness, and vitality.
In Luke 18:1-8, we discuss what it looks like to have a deep commitment and persistence in our faithfulness to Jesus in the midst of difficulty and desperate moments.