Empowering Impactful and Sustainable Legacy Projects
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Lugen Family Office has embarked on its own journey to create legacy projects that will make a difference in the world.
Why Does Lugen Collaborate, Support, and Empower Legacy Projects?
Why the Parable of the Sower is Powerful…
When you understand the parable of the sower you can see why it can be so powerful. The parable of the sower talks about those that produce fruit producing 30 times, 60 times, even 100 times more than they started with. It is the dream of Lugen Family Office to make each of our clients the seed that produces 100x more fruit for many generations to come.
Parable of the Farmer Scattering Seed in the Bible - Mark 4:1-20
4 Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge. 2 He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: 3 “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.”
9 Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”
10 When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. 11 He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outsideeverything is said in parables 12 so that,
“‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,
and ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’[a]”
13 Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable? 14 The farmer sows the word. 15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16 Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. 17 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.18 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; 19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.20 Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”
” When they see what I do, they will learn nothing. When they hear what I say, they will not understand. Otherwise, they will turn to me and be forgiven.”
Applying the Principles of the Parable of the Sower…
To understand the parable of the sower you need to understand the farming techniques of the days of Jesus. In our western civilization we prepare the soil prior to planting the seeds. In the times of Jesus, and even in many parts of the middle east today, they spread the seed before the soil is prepared. That is why Jesus gives 4 types of soil that the seed falls on. In this parable, Jesus does not tell the sower to judge the soil or decide what soil is ready for planting and what soil is not ready. He says that the sower sows the seed. It is not our job to judge, discern, or decide what soil is ready for a seed to be planted. It is our job to sow the seeds regardless of soil condition
There are 4 types of soil that we plant seeds into.
Seed that falls by the wayside.The wayside was the beaten path around the field. It is the ground that has been hardened and trampled on by the feet of people. This soil, otherwise known as a human heart, has been walked on until it has become hardened and impenetrable. These hearts have been hardened because of the years of being walked on by people. This seed falls on soil that is skeptical and cynical.
Seed sown in rocky soil. This soil is similar to the wayside. It has no place to dig deep roots in the heart of this person because this person’s heart is wounded and damaged with areas that are hard and inflexible to the change needed to be good soil. Because of this, at the first sign of trouble, this person gives up because they have no ability to stand up against the crowd. They are the typical people pleaser.
The seed that is choked out of fruitfulness by thorns. This heart is one that is in good enough shape that it produces a living plant that survives. Yet because of other priorities in it’s life it never produces any fruit. It cares more about the basic mundane things of life, or focuses on getting rich, or places other desires above the desire to do what it was meant to do which was produce fruit. Since it’s priorities are out of alignment, this seed never gets to the point to producing other seeds.
The seed in good soil. This seed sprouts, grows and produces more seeds. It produces a harvest. It reproduces and it effects people all around them. This seed starts the principle of the parable of the sower once again.
Now that is something to think about! Become part of our movement today and help make the world a better place.