A wonderfull story - very famous - but only understandable if you see
the addressees: pharisees and scribes... the elder son!
a story for people seeing themseves as just and scholared.
Lk shows: God is no problem; God loves the elder and the younger...
but maybe, that's the problem of some people: God loves every life-style.
Let's go deeper: God has nothing to do with any Life-style
God is a challenge - and we present our way of Life
The younger son get a good share on the fullness of Life
he enjoys life at home; he get his share of the estate, he get off...
he expriences squandering and debauchery...
but also "dying of hunger", feeling the pinch, hiring out himself,
less than a pig,
coming to his senses, consciousness of being a sinner, deciding to go home
In his way, fullness of Life means: lost + found; dead + living; troubles + plaisir...
The older son, working well, obedient - sees the behaviour of the younger as wrong;
And he is now the problem - he cannot tolerate an other life-style.
In his way, fullness of Life means: to discover what all he got.
In our Christian Community - which Life-style are we going to accept ???
Ecumenism means: accepting a lot of different ways to present Jesus Christ...
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