Does Jesus teach us to be shrewd in business and that it’s okay to even cheat our boss at work to accomplish a greater good? The parable of the unjust steward in Luke 16 has left many people puzzled by the meaning so many have taken from it, but is this what Jesus is teaching? What the steward does in changing what the rich man’s debtors owe him seems dishonest at best. Why does Jesus speak this parable and is there a meaning apart from what seems obvious?

As we have come to know parables were Jesus’ way of teaching a principle without it being readily understood and thus criticized by His critics, so this Sunday we will take on this parable as well as the rich man and Lazarus parable that follows, to understand what Jesus was teaching us.