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A Bible study on resentment and receiving grace
Read the older brother’s story and name the scorekeeping.
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Read Luke 15:25-32. Choose one question to write about. Take one small response into your day.
Read together, take turns listening, and leave room to pass. Ask what care would be useful before offering advice.
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Read: Luke 15:25-32
Another engagement photo. Another promotion. You type “So happy for you!!” and mean it, mostly. Then the quieter question arrives: I have been faithful, too. Where is my celebration?
You've led the Tuesday study for years and never missed. Where is your party? The older brother never left home. He worked hard, kept the rules and kept the farm running. And he was furious. "All these years I've been slaving for you," he said.
He'd lived in his father's house with a servant's heart the whole time. This is the quieter danger for faithful women. You can serve in every ministry, be there every Sunday and still feel like an employee waiting on a raise. Resentment is often the tell.
Name one resentment to God. Ask plainly for the need underneath it.
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