{text:bookmark-start} The Kingdom of God Is Like {text:bookmark-end} Throughout the New Testament the kingdom of God is describe in the form of parables. A parable is an extended metaphor, a simple story based on everyday kind of events. They are prime genre of scriptures and certainly one of the major focuses of Jesus teachings. One important factor of the parable was to illuminate a spiritual truth, some of Jesus messages were vivid and dramatic; his disciples knew the meaning of all his teachings. Tame’sarticle about the kingdom of God describes the importance of metaphors, these experience tells us how God feels about us and what the kingdom is like. According to Tame some of these biblical images still mean something to us, some have ceased to be meaningful; and some maybe outdated and not relevant in our society today. The concept of these metaphors were notunderstood by many today. Two parables that came to mind when reading Tame’s article. The first one is when Jesus tells the parable of the vineyard workers. The vine signified the spiritual churches (Matt20:1-16) in today’s churches one of the primary focuses is charity, giving to those in need. In this parableGod is the landowner and the believers were the workers. God don’t care about your heritage or your position he doesn’t care how much time you spent doing church work, this parable is not about rewards but it’s about that powerful word “SALVATION”. This passage gives us a good lesson about God’s grace and generosity we shouldn’t be envious of thosewho come to God at the last minute. Because as he said in (Matt 20:16) “ So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last”. We should be thankful we have a place. The second metaphor when Jesus tellsthe parable of the loaned money. God gives us all gifts and talents, according to our abilities many may call theses blessing. He expects us to use them and be a blessing to others, it doesn’t matter how many gifts we have...