The Regional Youth Council invites you to work the parables during Lent.  Members of the RYC have begun the journey with Jesus through Lent by creating a devotional book that works with some of the parables that Jesus told.  These teaching stories remain relevant for followers of Jesus as we live in and proclaim the already, but not yet, empire of God that Jesus once described with what could be considered the greatest riddle ever told.

Which commandment is the first of all?  Jesus answered, ‘The first is, “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.” The second is this, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” There is no other commandment greater than these.’ Then the scribe said to Jesus, ‘You are right, Teacher; you have truly said that “he is one, and besides him there is no other”; and “to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength”, and “to love one’s neighbour as oneself”,—this is much more important than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.’ When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, ‘You are not far from the kingdom of God.’
Mark 12:228-34

There are two formats for the devotional this year.

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