Parable of the Shrewd Manager
This week on Cultivate, Charlie and Abigail tackle what might be the most confusing parable in the Gospels — the Parable of the Shrewd Manager in Luke 16. A property manager gets caught mishandling his boss's finances, gets fired, and then — before he's out the door — starts forging documents to reduce what people owe his master, so they'll feel indebted to him once he's unemployed.
And then Jesus does something nobody expects: he has the owner commend the manager for it.
Not for the fraud. But for the shrewdness.
Charlie and Abigail work through why Jesus would tell a story like this — why…
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