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Session 3 Video

In session 3, we define what parable is. We get the definitions from different sources as comparison.

Session 3

Defining Parable

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https://content.lessons.church/files/study/erBukEAP4AJ/bfV5iOBI0ae/Parables (Mark Scott) 2016.pdf?dt=1661524672497

In this series, Dr. Mark Scott (New Testament faculty at Ozark Christian College) will help you to think about parables as the upside down stories that Jesus told to teach about the dynamic reign of God in the world. 

Parables

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- One sure way to go boring in the first part of a lesson is to say, “Webster says…” But we have to risk that here.

  - Parable (parabole) = throw beside. Thus, a “comparison.” 

  - It’s an “anecdotal” comparison—earthly story with heavenly 
meaning, and longer than the rabbis. In this light it goes back to 
narrative prophets. It’s more anecdotal due to being from the Hebrew 
word, “mashal” (closer to proverb or riddle).

  - It’s a true-to-life comparison—McQuilkin’s thought. Not fairy tales—
at least at first. 

  - It’s a true-to-life comparison that can leave you dumbfounded but 
open to the way of God in the world. 

  - It’s a true-to-life comparison that can break out into fiction. Watch for 
this because something strange is happening. It might indicate the 
invasion of the grace of God. 

  - Dodd, “At its simplest the parable is a metaphor or simile drawn from 
nature of common life, arresting the hearer by its vividness or 
strangeness, and leaving the mind in sufficient doubt about its precise 
application to tease it into active thought.”

  - Finally, Herzog helps us by adding that parables are *subverted*
comparisons.

Session 3: Defining Parable

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