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Stowell, Joseph - God's Compassion for Sinners

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God's Compassion for Sinners
by Joseph Stowell
Text: Luke 15
Topic: What are Christ's teachings on compassion
Big idea: Christ exemplified compassion toward sinful people.
Keywords: Christlikeness, Compassion, Social Action



Introduction:
  • Christians feel and exhibit anger toward the world around them.
Christ exemplified moving to the core of the crowd.
  • The crowd of people in Luke 15 modeled a polarization of sinner and saint.
  • Christ demonstrated seek-and-save, not search-and-destroy.
    - Illustration: Stowell likens the difference between these two paradigms for handling the sinner to the difference between the American "wrecker" truck and the British "recovery" truck.
Christ does not condone the sin of the crowd.
  • The parable of the Prodigal Son emphasizes the offense of sin.
  • The parable emphasizes the degrading personal consequences of sin.
Christ demonstrated the value of the sinner in the Father's eyes.
  • The parable of the Prodigal Son reveals the Father's full acceptance.
  • The parable reveals the Father's full forgiveness.
  • The parable reveals the Father's full restoration.
Conclusion:
  • God calls us to be the middleman in his compassion transactions.
    - Illustration: Stowell confesses how his own anger at a worldly celebrity blinded him from acknowledging the man's spiritual need and blocked him from following Christ into compassion.
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