When Jesus Chose Not to Explain
Mentoring like Jesus reminds us that he not only preached, taught, and explained—he sometimes resisted the instinct to explain. I know the feeling too well.
My urge is to speak, to fill the silence, to provide my answer to their “problem,” to tell them how it worked for me. As a rabbi, Jesus’ goal was seldom informational. More often, it was formative and especially transformational.
