About 25 years ago Alvin Toffler wrote the best-seller Future Shock, a book that looked at tomorrow's world. It spawned a whole industry in predicting trends in economics and the social sciences.
The title 'Future Shock', I suggest, is even more apt for a 'tale of the unexpected' in Luke 16, concerning a rich man and a beggar. It is a shocking tale in which we hear a voice from beyond this present world.
Let's approach this parable through a series of questions.
