How to Love People Where They're At

In Luke 15, you have the prodigal son. Many of you have heard the story. The younger brother says, Hey, dad, I'd love my inheritance now. He goes off to a foreign land and squanders it on wild living. And so he wakes up in a territory where there's pigs. Pigs were unclean; they wouldn't have been near them. They longs to eat what the pigs are eating. It's a desperate situation. But as we grow on the estate, as we mature, our heart is no longer hardened by cynicism. We experience the grace of the father. He puts his robe around us. He restores us to the estate. Then say