What if we have made a parable out of something far less parable and more of an apparent reality?
What about the Rich Young Ruler.
What if Jesus answer was not a parable and more of a reality?
Paul says in Eph 4 that the reason we work is to provide for the poor among us.
I remember one of the final scenes in Schindler’s List where Oscar Schindler realizes he could have saved more Jews if he had not had so many things of value. (a watch, home)
If we are actually more communal the individual as believers, then we are doing it backwards in the modern church where we do it as individuals in groups.
We have changed a community of individuals into individuals in a group, not community.
What if we have made a parable out of something far less parable and more of in apparent reality?
