Day 260 Elder Brotherism.

Day 260.
So I'm writing my fourth preach on the Prodigal God.
Strange thing happened. An angry lady left an angry message on my phone demanding that we take down our banner that promotes our series "The Prodigal God". She was mad that we would call God a prodigal. She indicated her Christian faith was insulted by our heresy.

Last week we defined Prodigal as "recklessly extravagant".
We explained that everything in the Prodigal Son story Jesus told points to the reckless extravagance of the Father. He runs to his son who wanted him dead; he kisses him and gives him the robe of honor, he throws a party to celebrate the return of the son who broke his heart, stole his money and spent it all.

......and God runs to us in the incarnation; God takes on human flesh; God hangs on a cross; God allows us to slap him, nail him, spear him, kill him.

Recklessly extravagant.

What a prodigal God.

What grace.

But the irony of the phone call was ...... I was penning thoughts about the Elder Brother.

Here's a line I preach tomorrow:

"When you become a Christian, either you will start becoming more like the Father or you will start becoming more like the elder brother. "

Listen in tomorrow to find out more.

This elder brotherism is so subtle and yet so destructive.