Yesterday (20070923) Rev. L. Levin gave a memorable sermon about this passage from Luke 16. her central question was; What has been lost in this story?
A parable, she said, is a story to make one point and only one. This is why all these parables in the preceding verses are together, to illustrate one point: the central message of the Gospel proclaimed by Jesus. One should not make theology from particualr verses without taking into consideration the context, the original intention, the audience, the cultural framework and the style of what it's written, and then read the text as it was originally written.
Then she mentioned that Middle East culture values more honour than truth. In this story Jesus is not commending a man for being dishonest, but for being shrewd.
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