Like Father Like Son from 36 Parables on Vimeo.

This Fall in TREK, we having taking a fresh look at some of the parables that Christ used to teach. The video above is just one modern look at a familiar story, that parable of the two debtors (Luke 7:36-48) and how it might of looked or been taught in our own culture.

This week in TREK, as we engage this passage it begs the questions of how comfortable are we (meaning the church) at pointing out the “notorious” sins of others and how comfortable have we become with our seemingly acceptable sins. It is easy to look at this parable and point out Simon’s inability to recognize his own need to experience grace and forgiveness and the subsequent judgment that he casts upon the woman at the foot of Christ. The more that interact with the text, the more I realize that very little has changed. The religious establishment can still be very good that denouncing the sin of others and avoiding the sin in ourselves. This text is meant to create introspection and develop the type of awareness and gratitude that produces the devotion and passion that the women demonstrates as she washes the feet of the Savior with her own tears.

The parable stills holds true and we who hear are still left unsettled by our own debt and the overwhelming realization that we are unable to repay it.