I'm going to dispense with the niceties and cut to the chase. Everywhere I turned this week commentators on this gospel told me that it is the most difficult of all the parables of Jesus. They told me how it has caused incredible problems for the church for 2,000 years now. Some said that the problems were caused because folks didn't understand what he was trying to say. I read so many of these that I got a class-A case of writer's block. I became stuck worrying that I'd come in here this morning with a dull, sad look on my face apologizing all over the place, happy that my wife is in Pennsylvania with her mother so that she wouldn't be embarrassed by my ineptness. I finally decided to cut to the chase as I said, get to the point and clear up as much of the confusion as I am able. If it en…