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A Bible study on welcome and coming home
Read the returning son’s story without another audition.
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Read Luke 15:11-24. 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 15:11-24
You rehearse the prayer in the car. First the apology, then the explanation, then a reasonably convincing plan for doing better. The younger son in Luke 15 had a speech ready, too. He was on his way home to ask for a servant's place.
He has wasted the inheritance. Hunger has made the old household look different. He plans what to say, gets up, and starts back. Jesus lets us see a real return, with a real wrong to name.
Then the father sees him while he is still far away. Before the son delivers his speech, the father runs to him, embraces him, and kisses him. The confession comes inside a welcome already underway.
Pray I am here. Then tell God one true thing without a preamble.
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