This is the second in a two-part series dealing with the hiddenness of God. In the first talk, "Why God Hides," Ross discussed the interplay between “atonement” (covering) and “apocalypse” (uncovering) as a framework for understanding how God reveals himself…and why he hides. In this, the second installment, Ross argues that Jesus, too, hides in order to be seen. Through the Parable of the Sower, we find that Jesus's communicative strategy is not merely to be the seed-planter of the gospel message, but also and perhaps more importantly, to be the master soil-tiller of the human heart so that the seed falls on fertile ground. Furthermore, as members of his body, we too can become the soil-tillers of one another.

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