{"id":3640,"date":"2021-08-24T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2021-08-15T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:05:13","slug":"losing-searching-finding-celebrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3640","title":{"rendered":"Losing, Searching, Finding, Celebrating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday I started writing about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+15&amp;version=TPT\">Luke 15<\/a> parables:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Lost Sheep<\/li><li>The Lost Coin<\/li><li>The Two Lost Sons (often called The Prodigal Son)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After yesterday&#8217;s introduction on the <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3638\">Listeners<\/a>, I intended to spend one blog on each parable, but I can&#8217;t do that. They form a set. So let&#8217;s consider them together at least one more time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, I offered this summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus attempts to reach the&nbsp;<strong><em>religious leaders<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;with these three stories, which we\u2019ll explore briefly over the next few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The sheep was lost outside the house and knew he was lost.<\/li><li>The coin was lost inside the house and didn\u2019t know it was lost.<\/li><li>Of the two sons, one was lost outside the house and knew he was lost; the other was lost inside the house and didn\u2019t know it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s let&#8217;s notice that the three stories contain common elements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Something is lost (the sheep, the coin, the younger brother)<\/li><li>Someone searches (the shepherd, the woman)<\/li><li>Something is found<\/li><li>There is a party<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EXCEPT in the third story, no one searches. The Father waited expectantly, but no one searched. I believe it would have been the older brother&#8217;s job to do his Father\u2019s will by searching, but he doesn\u2019t. We&#8217;ll explore that third parable in more detail. Remember, the Bible doesn&#8217;t call it the &#8220;Parable of the Prodigal Son:&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And he said, \u201cThere was a man who had two sons.&#8221; (Luke 15.11, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If more of us were searching, maybe there would be more celebrating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. (Luke 19.10, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I started writing about the Luke 15 parables: The Lost Sheep The Lost Coin The Two Lost Sons (often called The Prodigal Son) After yesterday&#8217;s introduction on the Listeners, I intended to spend one blog on each parable, but I can&#8217;t do that. They form a set. So let&#8217;s consider them together at least &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3640\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Losing, Searching, Finding, Celebrating<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-WI","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions\/3641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}