of a particular theological persuasion, the use of the Gospels must especially be curtailed because this is all pre-Pentecost, pre-church, and so really of a different era or dispensation. Some might respond that the Gospels do at least show us how Jesus was a master teacher, a man of the people who used simple stories to reach the average layman in the (grassy hillside) pew. But what does this mean when we realize that Jesus’s purpose in using parables is stated to be quite the opposite? We see