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The Running Father
Wikipedia defines the word prodigal as “wastefully extravagant” while, Merriam-Webster gives us the following definitions of the word:
1. carelessly and foolishly spending…
2. profuse or wasteful expenditure: lavish
3. recklessly spendthrift
4. yielding abundantly: luxuriant
The “Parable of the Prodigal” is one of the best loved parables of Jesus and is found in the Gospel of Luke 15:11-32. Most people know this as the story of the Prodigal Son or the Lost Son who foolishly wasted all of his inheritance.
However, this parable is also known as the Parable of the Running Father, the Loving Father, or even the Lovesick Father.
It is in this parable, that the wastefully extravagant, recklessly spendthrift, foolishness of the son (Luke 15:13-14) is matched by the …show more content…
real. Discipline is too often not actual discipleship and more of me constantly taking my temperature and your temperature. In many instances, it is me trying to fix me or you or vice versa.
Eugene Peterson once said that discipleship is a process of paying more and more attention to God’s righteousness and less and less of our own.
Discipleship is not just about disciplines, but also a message that frees us to train for godliness rather than trying to be a Christian. Trying is something we usually fail to accomplish. Training is a life time of practicing the way, from a place of victory because “the good seed cannot flourish if it constantly being dug up to see how it's doing."
If Christian growth is blessed self-forgetfulness, any program that is fixed on me rather than Christ it will be detrimental to my Christian growth.
Discipleship has to be a community of sharing The Gospel. If you make people your fix-it project, you in turn will break yourself, trying to fix others and you will break others in the midst of a feeble attempt to build
The Running Father
Wikipedia defines the word prodigal as “wastefully extravagant” while, Merriam-Webster gives us the following definitions of the word:
1. carelessly and foolishly spending…
2. profuse or wasteful expenditure: lavish
3. recklessly spendthrift
4. yielding abundantly: luxuriant
The “Parable of the Prodigal” is one of the best loved parables of Jesus and is found in the Gospel of Luke 15:11-32. Most people know this as the story of the Prodigal Son or the Lost Son who foolishly wasted all of his inheritance.
However, this parable is also known as the Parable of the Running Father, the Loving Father, or even the Lovesick Father.
It is in this parable, that the wastefully extravagant, recklessly spendthrift, foolishness of the son (Luke 15:13-14) is matched by the …show more content…
real. Discipline is too often not actual discipleship and more of me constantly taking my temperature and your temperature. In many instances, it is me trying to fix me or you or vice versa.
Eugene Peterson once said that discipleship is a process of paying more and more attention to God’s righteousness and less and less of our own.
Discipleship is not just about disciplines, but also a message that frees us to train for godliness rather than trying to be a Christian. Trying is something we usually fail to accomplish. Training is a life time of practicing the way, from a place of victory because “the good seed cannot flourish if it constantly being dug up to see how it's doing."
If Christian growth is blessed self-forgetfulness, any program that is fixed on me rather than Christ it will be detrimental to my Christian growth.
Discipleship has to be a community of sharing The Gospel. If you make people your fix-it project, you in turn will break yourself, trying to fix others and you will break others in the midst of a feeble attempt to build