"He was speaking truth to power and speaking it to a powerful man with a record of killing people who got in his way. But he didn't walk into the room and condemn the man for his sins, perhaps because the powerful man would have reacted and not repented.
"He told the man a story about a rich man who stole from a poor man, and I'm guessing he knew the powerful man well enough that he expected the story to enrage him. . . ."
In a recent commentary, writer David Mills
reflected on some of the ways in
which one can imitate the prophet Nathan when trying to encourage repentance and change.
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