What would you say if I told you that Jesus believed "that ever thought the human race has ever had about connecting with God was wrong"?
I just finished reading Tim Keller's book The Prodigal God with a group of friends on Monday nights. We gather and offer our experience. Real... where the rubber meets the road stories about God, the good the bad the ugly. We wrestle with Tim's perspective on Jesus' story to the insiders and outsiders of his day.
My friends and I love hard questions...
- Why does Church so often look different than the picture in this story?
- Why is it so hard for me to live everyday within the reality of this picture of God's love for us?
- How can I encourage my friends to experience this kind of relationship with God?
- What if we just got out of the way and let the Creator of the Universe, "who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine" shape our lives?
It's a game changer... I can't wait for next Monday!
Oops... SQUIRREL! Back to Tim's book.
He unpacks one of Jesus' most familiar stories about two sons and a father’s desperate desire to love them and share life with them. (Luke 15)
If you’re curious... (additional resources)
You can hear Tim talk more about it here or you can find out about the book here.
Henri Nouwen has also written a really powerful reflection on the parable in his book The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming.
May we all come to see that a good God has got a really big (understatement of a life time) plan going down and each of us is playing a part in his story!
