{"id":9993,"date":"2020-09-04T18:14:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T22:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/?p=9993"},"modified":"2020-12-26T17:58:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T22:58:30","slug":"the-parables-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/the-parables-of-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parables of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>&gt;&gt;Teachers: Ken Lau, Vivien Gam, Carl Chu&gt;&gt;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>About one-third of Jesus\u2019 teaching found in the Bible are in the form of parables.&nbsp;&nbsp; Have you ever contemplated why Jesus used parables in his teaching? Just a mere figure of speech from our master teacher? How is the message in the parables related to the theme of the gospel?&nbsp; Are you intrigued by some of the parable characters and the&nbsp;similes in the stories? There is too much to gloss over!&nbsp; <br><br>We invite you to join us to a systematic study on the parables of Jesus and to reflect on the present-day relevancy as we explore the parables in the synoptic gospels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&gt;&gt;Teachers: Ken Lau, Vivien Gam, Carl Chu&gt;&gt; About one-third of Jesus\u2019 teaching found in the Bible are in the form of parables.&nbsp;&nbsp; Have you ever contemplated why Jesus used parables in his teaching? Just a mere figure of speech from our master teacher? How is the message in the parables related to the theme of the gospel?&nbsp; Are you intrigued by some of the parable characters and the&nbsp;similes in the stories? There is too much to gloss over!&nbsp; We invite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[425],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10281,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions\/10281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}