Why would Jesus have such a great following of people? Because they deeply cared about religion? Maybe, but they weren’t exactly spending time at the temple. While the disciples of Christ were frustrated with the continual flow of stories, the crowds grew. We will learn this week on how neurology physically addresses how we take in stories. They give us perspectives in new ways that we can relate to. If you give information to a skeptic, they will use it against you. If you give information to a believer, they will shrug and say, yeah, I know. If you give purpose through stories, people connect to the message, the lesson, and the vision.
Jesus explains why the stories are important in His own words to the disciples in Matthew 13:10-17. The stories create the connections to minds and hearts otherwise not necessarily able to hear. Jesus doesn’t stick around to interpret His stories, or to give the famous “moral of the story” we see at the end of Aesop’s Fables. He gives the space for people to reflect, interpret through their own experiences, and transform.
This is the great lesson that Jesus gives us as we learn to communicate more effectively throughout this week!
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