Outwitted

outwitted

Prodigal Love

In his book Cabbages for the King Adrian Plass tells a story about a conversation he has had after the service. He has just talked about the story of the Prodigal son and the extravagant grace and love of God as shown by the father in the story and the example it is to us as Jesus followers. He writes:

“It was as I lingered in conversation with a small group of elderly people at the back that I realised how miserably I had failed to convey my main point, at least as far as one person was concerned.

Her name was Beth, and she was one of those white-haired, attractive, eighty-year olds whose eyes are deeply crinkled from years of smiling. As I sat with Beth and two of her contemporaries someone mentioned outreach.