One of my great spiritual failings â and there are lots â is the complete inability to not carry gospel analogies to their full and logical end. Referred to as parables in the New Testament, these gospel analogies typically only borrow the part of the comparison that suits their purpose. They ignore the rest of the story, which I often find just as informative. For example, last Sunday in church I listened to a talk about missionary work, or the importance God places on the seeking out of lost s... <img src="http://mngislctrib.112.2O7.net/b/ss/mngislctrib/1/H.17--NS/0?&pageName=RSS" height="1" width="1" border="0" alt=""/>