How Jesus Adapted the Parables

I think we owe it to Jesus to brainstorm. Sit down and once you got the basic plot arc of the parable, you see what he meant by it in the narrative context. There's a scholar, Tom Wright, NT Wright, is actually really well known for building in parables into his academic writing. And so if you get the main idea, I think it should inspire new creative adaptations of the parables in our own settings. But those basic ideas could be remade into a new modern day parable. Have you ever seen that done really well? Yeah. Well, that's essentially what sermon illustrations are.