Thanks for this advice I passed with similar stories once in native Ethiopia and the other at St Louis when I was a vicar. The Ethiopian case was be Salt(Matthew 5;13) and a student from noble family was not comfortable because of saltiness test I tried to accommodate all my best . The second one was the Bible verse about King Solomon ruling about the two women arguing owning a baby that Solomon ruled the baby cut in to two( 1King 3;16). My students could not accept my teaching. As a seminary student I was not having option to change the verse of the class except accepting my CED assignment. My advice would be when we teach metaphor bible verses we should be careful to present with the essential core purpose of the message caring for our listeners especially the little ones . Pastor Eddie Mekasha https://stmarkomaha.org/immpact/