Of Jesus' 132 public appearances in [the] New Testament, 122 were in the marketplace.

Of 52 parables Jesus told, 45 had a workplace context.

Of 40 divine interventions recorded in Acts, 39 were in the marketplace.

Jesus spent his adult life as a carpenter, until age 30 when he went into a preaching ministry in the workplace.

Jesus called 12 workplace individuals, not clergy, to build his church.

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Parables are tiny lumps of coal squeezed into diamonds, condensed metaphors that catch the rays of something ultimate and glint it at our lives. Parables are not illustrations; they do not support, elaborate or simplify a more basic idea. They are not ideas at all, nor can they ever be reduced to theological statements. They are the jeweled portals of another world; we cannot see through them like ...

You cannot tell people what to do, you can only tell them parables; and that is what art really is, particular stories of particular people and experiences.

Jesus talked much about money. Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables were concerned with how to handle money and possessions. In the Gospels, an amazing one out of ten verses (288 in all) deal directly with the subject of money. The Bible offers 500 verses on prayer, less than 500 verses on faith, but more than 2,000 verses on money and possessions.