14
Feb
2007
Preaching Parables
I Love reading about Jesus in the NT, so many stories about Him and so many stories told by him. But Sometimes I wonder in the Church in General have we tried to complicate Jesus Teaching, Instead of accepting His Words as truth, we end up creating new Theologies from sentences taken out of context, Many Theologians are good at picking and preaching the points that they agree with and quite keen to leave the truth that doesn’t fit their criteria for their man made religion. We hear talk about what denomination you are in, then its are you a Calvinist or Armenist, then of course what view do you hold on the Second coming?
My question is why do we debate stuff that creates division and confusion, Sorry to say this and its maybe gonna seem more harsh than its meant to be but Satan is the author and lies and Confusion, He seeks to kill, to steal and destroy. Could it be that Satan is trying to trick Christians by confusing them, dividing them, causing church splits etc. When Jesus Spoke, He Spoke in Love, when He Healed, He had compassion. Instead of Creating new segments in Christianity we need to Focus more on following Jesus, believing the Bible both the bits that we find easy and also the bits that are harder to grasp, believe and understand. But in Gods time we will.
In life we are on a journey that will cause us to have edges cut from us, we will need to be constantly reshaping ourselves as God Develops us into the people He Desires us to be. Things that You may struggle to accept and believe will in time reveal themselves to you, Sometimes I think Church splits are caused mostly by impatience, instead of staying with those who are needing a mature believer to walk beside them they rush off to create a ‘holier than thou’ club.
Jesus Teaches us to make disciples and I believe every believer has that responsibility, today I ask the question, who are you discipling?
If you were to ask people about understanding the words of Jesus Spoke in Parables you would find that Children from no age will understand them just as well as those a lot older. But you take the same range of people to many churches today and You can understand why many churches have sleeping congregations, or why churches have small attendances at Bible Studies etc.
I like to think of myself as a simple person, and for me if Jesus Did it, We need to do it, So Next time someone tries to start an argument just ask what did Jesus say about that? If Jesus didn’t talk about it then it probably isn’t worth wasting time on.
Keep it Smple – Keep it Real!
