How To Turn Your Life Around in 30 Days
Here’s a summary of this week’s sermon:
The prodigal son in the Parable of the Prodigal Son is a spoilt kid that leaves home and wastes his inheritance. He gets a job feeding pigs during a famine and is miserable. He decides to go back home and ask his father for forgiveness.
The key to turning your life around is repentance, which simply means changing your mind about the way you have been living. Repentance is life-giving because it results in changed behaviour.
The prodigal son in the Bible came to his senses after sinning. He did this by owning up to his mistakes. This is something that is not popular in modern culture, as people do not like being told they are wrong.
Expressive Individualism removes the guilt we feel when we think we have done something wrong because there is no longer a standard by which something can be judged as right or wrong - it's only how we feel about it that matters. However, this thinking keeps us trapped where we are because it doesn't change our lives.
As Christians, we have the doctrine of original sin, which is the fall of Adam. This means that humanity has an innate tendency to sin. Many people reject this idea, but it does not excuse individuals from taking responsibility for their own choices and actions.
It's an unpopular truth - but if we want to turn our lives around, we first have to come to our senses and realise that the way we live is not the best way. Like the prodigal son, we have to own our sin and not project it. And like Jesus we have to declare “not my will but yours be done”.
The story has a beautiful ending in which the son returns home to his father. The father is filled with love and compassion when he sees his son coming from a long way off. The father welcomes his son back and they celebrate with a feast.
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