Challenging Stories (p5) – ‘A Banquet of Eternal Joy

‘Receives’ in Greek means to actively seek and the fact that Jesus would actively seek out sinners made no sense to the Pharisees and these parables are in response to this.

Digging deep into the understanding of the parable of the servants with talents. How does this apply to you in the modern age?

Alex Banks talks about the parable of the persistent widow and how it relates to us and our everyday walk with Jesus.

In this story, Jesus is saying if you want to earn your way into heaven love your neighbour as the Samaritan did. We’ll never be able to love like this all the time, Jesus was highlighting man’s inability to earn their place in heaven. We’re not the Good Samaritan, we’re the wounded man. Jesus came to earth to be our rescuer, he is the ultimate Good Samaritan.