‘Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them’. John 10:6

The failure to understand Jesus was a matter of choice. It was not that his teaching was not Plain, the problem for his opponents was that it was too plain and that they did not like it.

There seems a striking contrast between the plain-speaking of Jesus and the Church in the Twenty-First Century. The church in decline has become increasingly esoteric, more and more emphasis is based on …