On Parishes and the Parable of the Sower
In Isaiah 29, thus says the Lord: “This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.” This again teaches us something fundamental about Christianity: All God wants is the human heart. He wants the hearts of individuals, and He wants the heart of a whole people, a whole community. God also wants, in other words, the heart of a parish. And it is in this sense of the heart of a parish that I will use to reflect upon the Parable of the Sower.
God sends His Holy Spirit to transform heart of a parish, to make it into good soil. It takes time for the heart to be transformed from…
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