Once the yeast goes into the dough, there is no going back. The bread may not rise or bake properly, but the bread will never be the same. We live in a Wonderbread culture, where food magically appears in grocery stores. Unless your family bakes, you may have begun to lose your connection to this image of yeast. Yet, real dough takes time to rise. The kingdom of heaven is not instantaneous.
The Mustard Seed parable has most recently dominated conversations on CNBC about the market. Investment theories can come from anywhere. Although Jesus parables may make some sense when discussing the market, we must also recognize that Jesus meant to talk about the Kingdom against the backdrop of money and resources, in a world that lives and breathes stuff, rather than talking about stuff in a world that lives and breathes the Kingdom.
How is the Kingdom like a mustard seed? How is the Kingdom like yeast?
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