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St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats email: office@stchads.org Church Offices: 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB Page 2 website: www.stchads.org Tel: (0114) 274 5086
C Jesus was a great communicator through words, people came from many miles to hear him, and he often engaged with the people of the day through parables, vivid short stories. The parables are one of the most distinctive features of Christ’s teaching, they are timeless, stories that can be, and are, retold time and time again, acted out in churches and in classrooms. It is perhaps in the parables more than any where else in the Gospels that we realise the originality of Jesus. They are not of course unique. The Jewish Rabbis used parables and so did St Paul. But no other parables are comparable to those of Jesus in their terseness, their wit, their sharp observance of human behaviour, and in their extraordinary power of conveying profound truth throughout a well-told story. The background of the parables is in the daily life of Palestine. Jesus’ parables – and there are about 60 of them, whole or in fragment - are crowded with people. The characters include farmers, fishermen, housewives and merchants: kings, landowners and judges; a woman searching for a lost silver piece; guests at a wedding and a family whose house had been burgled. What marks them is the breadth of their sympathy and their profound insight into human nature. Here are real people, and the situations we meet them in are real situations. These stories are explorations of the meaning of love as the working principle of human action. Jesus expected ordinary men and woman to see the point he was making – this was the only way in which human situations could be dealt with and by using these stories he put it in such a way that people could see what he was driving at and be in no doubt. The parables, then, are vivid short stories rooted in everyday life. They are stories with meaning and many of the central themes of the message of Jesus are embodied in them. We should remember that they were spoken by a poet, that their background and immediate reference is first century Palestine. Yet the brilliance of them, like all great art, is that they have a timeless quality and can be used to illuminate modern day situations. A- I Our magazine has made an impact with the judges at a national competition for church magazines. Impact was commended after winning the magazine layout category in the Association of Church Editors Awards Scheme. The awards were presented at Westminster Central Hall in London. Methods of communication have obviously changed since the time of Jesus and you will read about many of these in this edition of Impact, but the overriding message is that we exist to communicate with each other and God in order to grow, learn and thrive as His people. Rev Canon Peter Ingram Vicar of Holy Trinity, Millhouses and Area Dean for Ecclesall St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats email: office@stchads.org Church Offices: 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB Page 3 website: www.stchads.org Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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