Thursday 7 March 2013

Services for Sunday the 10th March 2013, The Fourth Sunday in Lent

Hawkesdale 9.00am Service with Holy Communion
Warrnambool 11.00am Service with Holy Communion

READINGS:  II Corinthians 5:16-21
                        Luke 15:11-32

Sermon Text, Luke 15:11-32

As they read this parable, many are inclined to dwell exclusively on the relationship between human beings.  If we take this parable only as a lesson in how human beings are to behave toward each other, we are then missing entirely, one hundred percent, absolutely and completely, the real point of the whole thing.  Why is it so often so hard for people to get it right, that this parable is about the father and the son (or, perhaps better, about the father and the two sons)?  It is about our relationship – yours and mine - with God.  Is it even thinkable that our broken relationship with God could be healed when, in a corresponding situation among human beings, you would never be able to even dream about the possibility of reconciliation? These are some of the matters we shall be taking up for consideration during this Sunday's sermon.

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