Emphasis Preaching Journal

Parables are much better than scholarly dissertations! When I taught in the seminary in Nepal, there was a language and cultural barrier, which made academic instruction difficult, but parables can get across in almost any language. Only a few were difficult like marriage which was handled differently in Nepal, though it was much the same in Old Testament books when parents often selected a mate for their children. We had much more fun and it was more interesting to the students in class with parables and they got the point.