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Because – 16 March 2010
Yesterday we heard about Kate, from Nick Hornby’s How To Be Good. She was thinking over her life and her motivation for why she does what she does. She wanted to be a doctor because she thought it was a way of being good.
Being good was very important to the elder brother in Jesus’ story of the two sons:
“All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’”
Luke 15:29-30 [NIV]
Why do you think being good was important to the elder brother? Why do you think that the elder brother thought his father should be pleased with him?
Why do you think that God should love you?
As we saw yesterday, human beings are not capable of being good enough to meet God’s standard of perfection, and yet God still loves each one of us and reaches out to us in his love for us.
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Tim Norman, 16/03/2010 |
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