Walking the Wide Road of Misuse of Matthew 7:13–14 and Luke 13:22–25
Many homilists and other Catholic and Christian preachers greatly misuse the Parable of the Narrow and Wide Road leading to the respective sized gates (Matthew 7: 13–14) or doors (Luke 13:22–25).
Near the end of the Sermon of the Mount in Matthew, Jesus exhorts his listeners to walk the narrow road leading to the narrow gate for wide is the road…