The Parable of the Sower

08/03/2014
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Pruébalo Gratis

Descripción de The Parable of the Sower

For us at neXus the parables are the foundation of our understanding of the Gospel and the kingdom of God. The teaching of Jesus contained in these parables is revolutionary and is a direct confrontation with the systems of power and control that’s often found in religion. Most of us have been taught these parables as moral lessons or as cute stories of how to treat others. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. Jesus was confronting the morality of his day and age and putting forward a radical new understanding of God. The God we see in the parables is a God who wants nothing to do with moralizing or petty scorekeeping but instead invites us into a lavish inclusive relationship of grace. We begin this week with the parable of the sower. This story has nothing to do with evangelizing where some people become Christians because they’re the good soil and others don’t accept Jesus into their hearts because they have hardened hearts like stony ground. Instead this parable sets up the entire framework for understanding a God of inclusivity. Invite a friend who may never have been to neXus before because we are convinced that when you hear the parables in a fresh way your eyes can be opened to a new way of understanding and relating to God.