Articles tagged 'creativity'

God the Builder - crutch or scaffolding?

If you take a look at the parables of Jesus you will see a lot of analogies with things people at the time would have known about.  Farming techniques, fishing, dealing with tax collectors, vineyards and olive groves.  All these were common knowledge for the people he was speaking to.  I wonder if the meaning is lost on us sometimes, because we’re not living amongst vineyards and suchlike.  It takes a lot more effort for us to understand the meaning of the parables, because we have to do research into what it was like at the time, and what the significance of everything was.

I was pleasantly surprised, then, when the other day I stumbled across an analogy that was scriptural but relevant to our times.  When I say “scriptural”, it isn’t actually in the Bible, but it does tie in nicely with what is said in the Bible.

First, some background.  It was Back To Church Sunday last week, and as part of the service our vicar invited me up the front to answer a couple of questions.  One of them was something along the lines of “what difference does faith make to your life?”  This isn’t an easy questions for me to answer, because I’ve been a Christian so long that I can’t really compare my life now to my life without God.  However, I did think about it (I had been primed the day before to give me a chance to come up with a suitable answer), and stumbled across this little gem, which is shared in church and felt I could share here too.

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