Instructions: Read the parable several times, becoming familiar with the characters and the story’s movement. Then pray and ponder its relevance to your own life.
Use these questions to help you write your essay:
What parable did you choose? What is it about? Who was Jesus addressing in the parable? What meaning does it have to you? Can you share an example of a current event or occasion when the parable was relevant to you? Include how this parable from Lukes Gospel can teach us today.
Choose one of the parables unique to Lukes Gospel below:
The two debtors 7:41-43
The good Samaritan 10:30-37
Friend at midnight 11:5-8
Rich fool 12:16-21
Severe and light beatings 12:47-48
Barren tree 13:6-9
Lowest seat at the banquet 14:7-14
Excuses for not attending a banquet 14:16-24 Building a tower 14:28-30
Waging war 14:31-32
Rich man and Lazarus 16:19-31
Pharisee and tax collector 18:10-14
Shrewd manager 16:1-9
Prodigal son 15:11-32
Widow and judge 18:2-5
Lost coin 15:8-10
Slave serves the master 17:7-10

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