Month: November 2012

Don recapped that we are in the final stages of our consideration of the metaphor of the sheep and the shepherd – of our relationships with God and each other (via Matthew 25.) It is a puzzling metaphor. Ostensibly, it is a simple judgment scene where good people end up in the Kingdom while bad…

Evil Don: One of the questions that has arisen out of our discussion is that we see God primarily as being in the business of uniting, and the devil as being in the business of dividing. Is Matthew 25 referring not to individual judgment, but to a judgment of Evil itself, at the end of…

The Parable of the Lost Sheep contd.   Don: This may be the final session in our study of the Lost Sheep parable, based on Matthew 18. Who are the goats? How do goats differ from sheep? Can goats become sheep and vice versa? How much can we gain from the metaphor? What does it…