The parable of the wedding feast unfolds into three parts; the inviting of guests, a call to the outcasts, and a removal. (Brown 664) Matthew paints the scene of Jesus using a parable to describe the fact, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son " (Mt 22:2). Using a wedding banquet as the setting for this parable allows people to apply the message of God to their everyday lives. ... The Parable of the Wedding Feast also occurs in the Gospel of Luke, 14:16-24. ... Also, the Gospel of Matthew offers a shorter summary in comparison to Luke and inclu...

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It's because of this text that I believe his story is quite parallel to the Parable of the Prodigal Son, he seems very lost without a deeper connection to his god and wants desperately to be united with him in a more concrete sense. ...

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Leadership is a vastly important trait throughout the various relationships human beings have in interactive structures and progress in various organizations from career plans to church life. All the way through scripture, both Old and New Testament leaders were exhibited as experimental subjects wh...

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Religious Symbolism in Alberto Moravia and Vittorio De Sica's Representations of Two Women. In 1957, Alberto Moravia wrote Two Women, a novel that demonstrates the fallacy of the bourgeoisie's worship of money and its resultant cycle of spiritual death and resurrection through suffering. In 19...

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Multiple factors correlate to the advancement of a congregation but increasingly, these factors gravitate towards a common variable: leadership. Pastoral leadership can be defined as the work that pastors do to equip and motivate church members in the pursuit of the church's overall mission. The...

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