Summer Theme

Just for Life!

Through parables, this study will look at the justice of God. When many people think of the parables, they probably think of them in terms of the old definition, "An earthly story with a heavenly message." Though partly accurate as a way of describing Jesus' earthly accounts of growing seeds, mustard plants, sheep, and vineyards, such a perspective fails to recognize the unheavenly controversy that his parables have often generated.

Within the last few decades, Jesus' parables have been studied as stories with the potential of multiple meanings whose goal is to engage the reader/hearer in considering the world in a different way, in God's way. Parables function as metaphors challenging or inviting the audience into a new or deeper experience of God's dominion, a dominion identified with those who are the last, the lost, the least, the little, and the lifeless.

Theme Verse

Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. - Amos 5:24

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