A parable — Strawman

A man heard his neighbor's voice through the wall and built in his mind a smaller man, a weaker man, easier to answer. He spent the evening defeating this smaller man. In the morning the neighbor knocked, and the man had no answer for him, for he had never heard him at all. Ask yourself: Whose argument did you defeat last — your neighbor's, or the smaller one you built? RED — be honest first. Steelman before you respond. (A Narrow Highway original teaching parable — not a parable of Jesus; a made story that carries a true edge.)