I'm preaching on Luke 15 at River's Edge on Sunday. Actually, I'm speaking at their mini-missions conference on Saturday night too. Luke 15 is where Jesus tells three stories about lost things - a shepherd with a lost sheep, a woman with a lost coin, and a father with a lost son.
I've got a couple ideas bouncing around in my head at this point on the passage. In no particular order, they are:
The passion of the shepherd/woman/father to find what was lost.
The rejoicing is over finding the lost thing, not what was never lost.
The identity of the lost/not lost things - the sheep, the coins, the brothers - they are the same except in their relation to the shepherd/woman/father.
The dissimilarity of the father as compared to the shepherd/woman - the father waits...he doesn't go into the far away land to find his son.
Any of these strike you as particularly powerful? Any aspect of these stories that I didn't mention that really catches your attention?
1 comment:
dan,
your talks were great this weekend! i was especially impressed by how you were able to connect all of your thoughts so well, like how God's passion for seeking that one lost sheep, coin, son, also reveals our own lostness. God spoke powerfully through you, and river's edge was blessed! :)
~ kelley
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