{"id":261,"date":"2024-11-10T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2025-01-06T20:08:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T01:08:39","slug":"why-parables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Why Parables?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew 13:10-17<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike the prophets of the Old Testament, Jesus frequently taught in parables &#8211; dozens are recorded in the Gospels. But why did He use parables to teach the crowds? That&#8217;s what His disciples asked, and in this message, Hal looks at this form of teaching and the reason Jesus gave for using it! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gracechristianfellowship.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/Life+of+Christ\/Life+50+-+Why+Parables+-+11-10-24.mp3\">Click here to listen<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 13:10-17 Unlike the prophets of the Old Testament, Jesus frequently taught in parables &#8211; dozens are recorded in the Gospels. But why did He use parables to teach the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sermons","category-the-life-of-christ","tag-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}