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Stiller argues that Jesus’ parables, through their narrative, personal, and oral dimensions and reversal of expectations, provide unique access to Christianity for those whose experience and hopes we label “postmodern”. Aligning contemporary scholarship with today’s cultural assumptions, Stiller offers preachers a working knowledge of postmodern sensibilities, an understanding of the parable...

In the Parable of the Lost Sheep, the shepherd leaves his ninety-nine to find the one lost. Everything set aside to find the wandering, foolish sheep results in the joy of finding the lost one. Jesus concludes the parable by returning to the example of the child and continues with teaching how to handle a person unwilling to settle a dispute. To those he says, if they refuse, treat them as if they were “a pagan or a tax collector” (Matt. 18:17). Jesus does not exclude “pagans or tax collectors” from
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