Most of Jesus’ teaching about the Kingdom of God was through telling stories called parables. The nature of these stories suggests that Jesus saw the pictures created by these parables as the most appropriate way of conveying the truths about the Kingdom of God. But he also taught this way because such parables required his hearers to engage with faith if they were to recognise the new world coming into the old that these stories spoke of. Looking four parables grouped together in Chapter 4 of Mark’s Gospel, this series will encourage us to consider what these parables of the kingdom have to say to our lives both as individuals and as a church.
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