Desperation - Lost Hope, Seek Help Similar to Step #1 of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), recognizing my life is unmanageable and I'm personally powerless to improve it. I am no longer worthy to be called your son make me like one of your hired servants.’ Condemnation - Expected & Deserved by the Father
“When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
Inclination - A Longing to Return to the Father. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. The younger one said to his father (2), ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. Parable of the Prodigal Son and Forgiving Father - Luke 15:3-32 Jesus continued: “ There was a man who had two sons (1). A recent sermon series at South Harbor Church, while rereading an excellent book by Tim Keller, The Prodigal God, brought to mind new insights from this familiar, very powerful parable spoken by Jesus as, in particular, I was drawn to the 4- characters and 5 - movements highlighted below:
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