DP #8: The Significance of the Insignificant

In the parable of the wicked tenants, Jesus compares the beginning of conflict to a rejected stone, something small and insignificant, undesirable and seemingly useless. At the end of the parable, he says that it is God who makes the stone significant and it is God who makes that stone great, important and relevant, a cornerstone, a beginning of something much larger. The rejected stone is the initial conflict, the single show of disobedience that becomes significant as it snowballs, and it is in this that Jesus says, like the mustard seed, social change will manifest. The change is not immediate, but Jesus makes clear that it is through God that even something we reject easily ourselves becomes significant.