We like things to be easy to sort: wheat or weeds, good or bad, right or wrong. But Jesus’ parable of the wheat and the weeds challenges our instinct to decide too quickly who belongs in which category.

In this Sunday Spark message, Pastor Zach explores Jesus’ instruction to “let the two grow together” and what that means for the way we see one another—and ourselves. The weeds in Jesus’ story looked so much like wheat that pulling them up risked destroying the good crop along with them. Maybe that tells us something about our own tendency to judge, label, divide, and try to root out what we believe doesn’t belong.

The truth is, life is rarely as black and white as we would like it to be. Good and evil, grace and sin, wheat and weeds can exist in the same field—and even within the same person. We are not the reapers, a ...