“Some want to live within the sound of chapel bells, but I want to run a rescue shop a yard from the gates of hell.” C. T. Studd
Rembrandt’s painting: He is kneeling because He can’t do life alone.
Henri Nouwen writes: Yet over and over again I have left home. I have fled the hands of blessing and run to faraway places searching for love! This is the great tragedy of my life and the lives of so many I meet on my journey. Somehow I have become deaf to the voice that calls me the Beloved… There are many other voices. The dark voices of my surrounding world try to persuade me that I am no good and that I can only become good by earning my goodness through “making it” up the ladder of success.
Read Luke 15:25-32
Remember the audience that Jesus is speaking too…
Luke 15:1-2 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. 2 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
He is more lost than the younger brother. Why?
