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Parable Teaching Stories
After a teacher's own preparation in prayer, the first thing he or she should consider is the process by which truth is to be transferred from the adult to the child. A very useful guide to this is to look at some of the ways our Savior taught. The New Testament is full of Jesus' parable teaching stories speaking to a crowd or addressing his disciples or even conversing with an individual as he takes a cup of water. As we look closer however, we discover that many different ways of communicating truth were used. Here are just a few of them.
There are almost forty parables recorded in the Gospels, two thirds of them being found in the Gospel of Luke, only nine in Mark and not a single one in St. John. Jesus obviously loved to use parable teaching stories with a spiritual meaning, which is exactly what a parable is. One of the better known of these "earthly sayings with a heavenly meaning" is the parable teaching story of the sower, which is also one of only a few found in all three Synoptic Gospels.1
1Matthew, Mark and Luke
"Listen, then if you have ears!"
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