There are only three types of soil
24th February 2008
At church today, our pastor shared on the Parable of the Sower as part of the series on Church Without Walls (cWoW), the concept that church is not only about doing the traditional "spectator-sport" of going to church, sitting in pews, listening to good music, perhaps even singing along, and then listening to a good sermon.
Church is about being actively involved in living out your faith among a community of active participants who share the life of the Spirit and meeting the needs - physical, spiritual, social, emotional - of the wider community and drawing people to the loving Heavenly Father God.
One of the first steps of actively living out your faith is to first of all receive the Word and let it flourish in your life.
So, Pastor Dave shared some thoughts on the Parable of the Sower and then asked the congregation to interactively respond by offering their insights, reflections and sharing about what God is doing in their lives, and how the passage impacted them.
As I was reflecting on the passage, I was quite puzzled with the description of the types of soil. Jesus talked about the Kingdom of Heaven being like a farmer who went out to sow his seed. He says that the seed fell on different types of ground. Typically people talk about the four types of soil.
Some seed fell on the path where the ground was hard and there was no soil and the birds came and ate up the seed. The seed that fell among rocky ground, sprang up quickly but because the soil was shallow, when the sun came up the plants shrivelled up. Other seed fell among thorns which grew and choked up the plants so that they did not bear grain. And the seed that fell on good soil sprang up, grew and produced an abundant crop.
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