The inspiration for this series is Pastor Fred L. Crouther, New Covenant Baptist Church, Milwaukee, and how he is able to take a parable of Jesus and preach on its applicability and usefulness by modernizing it for today’s contemporary audience.
This week, I will present a similar modern scenario and/or concept to illustrate the parable concerning the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31), followed by a brief discussion:
Every day, an executive of a successful business, who wears nothing but tailor-made suits, walks from the parking structure to the entrance of his downtown high-rise office building.
The less than a ½ block walk takes the executive by a homeless man who sits on a bus shelter bench.
Every day the homeless man asks the executive if he could spare some change.
This modern situation is very similar to the story of the rich man and the beggar named Lazarus.
