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A 5 page dialectical method sermon on the parable of the prodigal son. Many Christians seems to feel that to be devout and feel that they are "good" Christians, they must assume a worldview that is a throwback to Puritanism. They see the world as extremely serious; themselves as miserable sinners who should be properly humble and contrite and they also feel that it is somehow inappropriate to show too much joy or pleasure at being alive in God's good world. Luke 15:11-24, the parable of the "prodigal son," demonstrates that this worldview goes against the express teaching of Jesus, which offers believers the message that there is reason to celebrate and no need for sorrow, as God welcomes any sinner who believes with open arms and a loving embrace. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Puritanism. They see the world as extremely serious; themselves as miserable sinners who should be properly humble and contrite and they also feel that it is somehow inappropriate to show
too much joy or pleasure at being alive in Gods good world. Luke 15:11-24, the parable of the "prodigal son," demonstrates that this worldview goes against the express teaching of
Jesus, which offers believers the message that there is reason to celebrate and no need for sorrow, as God welcomes any sinner who believes with open arms and a loving
embrace. Virtually every Christian is familiar with all of Jesus parables. Jesus used these allegorical tales to convey spiritual truths in a manner that could be easily understood on
human terms. The problem today in considering these parables is that Christians seldom to stop and consider what lessons Jesus was trying to convey. In Luke 15:11-24, Jesus describes a
specific situation that begins with a man and his two sons. Jesus relates how the younger of the two sons came to his father and asked for his inheritance,
the "property that will become to me" (Luke 15:11). The father complies and his property is divided between his sons. The younger son travels to a distant land and squanders
his inheritance with dissolute living (Luke 11:13). After spending all his money, a famine takes hold of this land and the only work the young man can find is feeding
the pigs. He is so desolate that Jesus indicates that he would have fed on the pig swell, but "no one gave him anything" (Luke 15:16). During biblical times,
traveling any distance took considerable time. Jesus specifically mentions that this was a "distant" land. Details included in the narrative also suggest that a great deal of time passes before
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