Bart Byl on Luke 18:9-14.

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Tbilisi International Christian Fellowship is a Christ-centred family of believers in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Of all Jesus’ parables, the story of the Pharisee and the tax collector may be the most disturbing and outrageous. There must have been a shocked silence when Jesus finished. As far as the crowd pressing around Jesus was concerned, the Rabbi had made a terrible mistake—he had sent the wrong man home with God’s approval.