Lost and Found

We don’t think much about lostness. But it is a big idea in the Bible. When you are lost, you don’t even know where you are, or where you want to go, and so you don’t know the way. You are just lost. And when you are lost, you don’t know what life is for and so you don’t fit in and you just bump off life hard.

There are lost people today. We forget that sometimes.

Foolishness and carelessness and willfulness are all ways we can get lost, but there is another way someone gets lost in this chapter. By your goodness!

 
But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

Luke 15:29

 
Jesus wants us to get this straight. He wants to mess with how you see the world until you see the world like he sees the world, until we love who he loves. He wants to reset the DNA of his church. Jesus loves lost people. That was his reputation. The Pharisees tagged him for it again and again, and he wore it proudly.

 
The Son of Man came, eating and drinking, and people say, ‘Look at him! He eats too much and drinks too much wine, and he is a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’   Matt 11:19

Look at this series or other St Stephens messages

Comments

[loretta brooks]

I wanted to thank you for making available online the materials for the Sunday evening class. In reading Embracing the Love of Jesus, I read something which prompted me to get Devotional Classics by Foster and Smith. Today I read a section taken from Willard's Spirit of the Disciplines and was impacted greatly by what he had to say so I appreciate your reading suggestions and plan to read more of him.