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Question: What is so important to you, that if you lost it and found it again, you’d actually throw a party?

Reading:

1 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.” 3 So he told them this parable: 4 “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? 5 And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for i have found my sheep that was lost.’ 7 Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. – Luke 15:1-7

Question: Why do you think Jesus goes over the top, here?  What context might help us figure this out?

Question: How do you think being with Jesus was like being a party?  What made his parties different?

Challenge: What would we have to do, here, to make people see a bit of heaven here?  How can we show them the kind of party God would have?