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So the hope or the thought is to furnish you with further principles for living your lives

well, which entails discerning your vocations well.

And there's a sense in which we could descend into particulars or peculiar as concern the concrete decisions that you're

making in the here and now. But the more concrete you get, the less applicable it is to all

persons present. So that's in part the reason why we're focusing on principles, like biblical

principles, salvation historical principles, because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today,

and forever, and the proclamation of the gospel will always have applicability in our lives.

And I think too, I was thinking about this recently, I've noticed we've become a more so like

a kind of quote mining people. I don't know if you've noticed this, but as media gets shorter

and shorter as it tracks with our shorter and shorter attention span,

we find that the way that we listen to preaching and to teaching is often enough just kind of mining it for certain insights, for certain quotes,

which we can then frame or like send over to some gal who runs an Etsy shop and then have beautifully portrayed for our dorm room wall or whatever it is.

And I think that the Christian, to a certain extent, has to resist that quotization of life

because there's just more than tidbits and nuggets, right?

We're meant to be immersed in the word, not so much to just kind of pick and choose amongst words.

So that's in the back row of what I'm doing.

And I was listening to Father Jordan's talks, and I thought that one way in which we could focus the discourse through which he led us

or into which he introduced us is to think a little bit about the parables.

So Father John Mark made reference to the

fact that I studied Christology and I like speaking about Christology, but folks don't necessarily

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