![]() But when your kids bite into the resulting cookies, they usually end up crinkling their noses and saying, “Why did you mess with it? We liked the cookies better the old way!”Īctually, we have three yoked stories here of lost-and-found, though the Lectionary skips over the first two. This parable is like your Grandma’s classic recipe for chocolate chip cookies: at some point you might try to tweak the recipe to freshen it up a bit-white chocolate chips might be fun, maybe some cinnamon. And just maybe you shouldn’t mess with it. ![]() ![]() You could even do what one well-known writer once suggested which was, in a way, to tell it from the fatted calf’s point of view!īut when it’s all said and done, we’ve still got the same basic story that Jesus told to make a very basic gospel point. Some have tried to be fresh and novel by preaching the story from the father’s point of view, from the older brother’s point of view, from the pigs’ point of view (OK, I never actually heard one from that point of view but it’s surely just a matter of time!). Thus when it comes to the Parable of the Prodigal Son, folks have tried to preach it backwards, sideways from above, from below. ![]() “Goodness, people have heard this story SOOOO many times” we think. Texts that are super-familiar to many people always tempt one to do something different. ![]()
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