The prodigal God recovering the heart of the Christian faith
Uses the biblical tale of the prodigal son to provide both an introduction to Christianity and a clarifying primer on the nature of the gospel for believers, in a resource that reveals how Jesus's essential message is revealed by the story in ways that can enable greater understandings of the Christ...
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New York :
Dutton,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The parable
- The people around Jesus : "all gathering around to hear Him"
- Two kinds of people
- Why people like Jesus but not the church
- The two lost sons : "there was a man who had two sons"
- The lost younger brother
- The younger brother's plan
- The lost elder brother
- Redefining sin : "all these years I've been slaving for you"
- Two ways to find happiness
- Two lost sons
- A deeper understanding of sin
- Both wrong, both loved
- Redefining lostness : "the older brother became angry and refused to go in"
- Anger and superiority
- Slavishness and emptiness
- Who needs to know this?
- The true elder brother : "my son, everything I have is yours"
- What we need
- Who we need
- Redefining hope : "He set off for a far country"
- Our longing for home
- The difficulty of return
- The feast at the end of history
- The feast of the father : "he heard music and dancing"
- Salvation is experiential
- Salvation is material
- Salvation is individual
- Salvation is communal
- Babette's feast.
