Mark 4:2-3 Then He taught them many things by parables, and said to them in His teaching: “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.

Jesus was not the only one to use Parables. It was a common teaching technique used by rabbi’s. Parables are stories that illustrate a point by forcing the student to think and question. It was typical for a teacher to take his students outside, and create a parable utilizing the setting they were in.

The first parable of Mark 4 starts out with a very important point … the sower went out to sow. Would we call someone who has never stepped foot on a farm a farmer? Would we call someone who never sowed a seed a sower? Of course not. Watching a football game doesn’t make you a quarterback and being in church doesn’t make you a Christian.

This is a hungry, even starving world. Faith is infectious. Plant seeds of faith and others will get the message. Jesus told us that we are to sow seeds of the gospel because there is a hungry and dying world that needs to hear. Are you a sowing?