Qualities of Parables
The number of qualities of Jesus' parables we studied in class.
What is 10?
The meaning of the Greek word paraballow.
What is "to throw alongside?"
The meaning of the phrase, "the word of God".
What are the life and teachings of Jesus?
The 3 characters in the Parable of the Unmerciful Servant.
Who are the master and the two servants?
What is one page?
The 3 main qualities of Jesus' parables.
What are, meaning at the end, subversive, and compares everyday life to spirituality?
The movie of the clip we watched in class to demonstrate the role of characters in Jesus' parables.
What is Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs?
The primary narrative in the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard.
What is, "fairness is overshadowed by grace"?
The identity of the lost son.
Who is the older brother?
Our essential question for Religion III.
What is the future of the church?
What Biblical scholars call a reference in the Bible to another part of the Bible.
What is an allusion?
The title Biblical scholars give to the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
What are the synoptic gospels?
The sub-narrative behind the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard.
What is, don't get so lost in the reward that you miss the joy of the work itself?
The place the servants go after the original guests refuse the Master's invite to his wedding banquet.
Where are the streets (highways and byways)?
The full name of the main character's love interest (before they get married) in the movie Big Fish.
Who is Sandra Templeton?
An example from Jesus' parables of subversiveness.
Answers may vary. Examples can include things like: The workers being paid the same amount for different hours, or the servant demanding his fellow worker's debt after his own was forgiven.
What Biblical scholars call the source that Matthew, Mark, and Luke all seem to borrow ideas from.
What is "Q"?
What we call a parable where Jesus' actions teach the lesson for his audience.
What is a living parable?
The three inaccurate parts of the Parable of the Mustard Seed.
What are, it is not the smallest seed, it does not become a tree, and the birds cannot perch in its branches?
The 4 types of soil in the Parable of the Sower.
What are the path, rocky, thorny, and good soils?
Seven qualities of Jesus' parables.
Answers may vary. What are, meaning at the end, subversive, compares everyday life to spirituality, short, simple/symmetric, human beings, inspired by reality, relevant issues, God's Kingdom, and allusions to the O.T?
The four primary questions we discussed in our State of the Church conversation?
What are some of the things the SDA Church consistently gets right? What are some things you were different about SDA beliefs/methodology? What are some things you wish the church understood about your generation?
The three components of a Markan sandwich AND how they are applied in the story of the fig tree in Mark 11.
What are the bread (dead fig tree), meat (temple), and the bread (fig tree again)?
The four groups in Jesus' audience when he told the Parable of the Lost Son.
Who are sinners, tax collectors, Pharisees, and teachers of the law?
The exact poem Norther Winslow writes in Big Fish while he is in Spectre.
What is, "Roses are red. Violets are blue. I love Spectre."