Week Prior to October 25 - Land of the Lost

OK, last week was pretty amazing, from my far-away perspective. Thanks to all who came, or wanted to, but were sick :( .


This week, let's stay in the Jesus story. Let us get transported to "The Land of the Lost".


Luke 15 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2015&version=MSG) has three stories of lost things or people. In each story, the lost gets found.


1. Why were they lost? (Get creative, don't be satisfied with the "Sunday School answers")
2. How did they get found?
3. What were the terms and conditions of being found?
4. What new insights can you bring to the discussion on Sunday afternoon?


Teaser: I have the third story as a play - a reader's theater. Would anyone like to actually perform it? Let's talk together on Sunday.


And finally, for a little fun on that last Land of the Lost story: Here is the story in the Key of F:

The Prodigal Son in the Key of F.

Feeling footloose and frisky, a foolish fellow

forced his father to fork over his fourth of the

family farthings and flew far to a foreign field

where he fast frittered away his father's fortune

feasting foolishly with fatuous friends. Fully

fleeced by his faithless fellows and fearful folly,

and facing famine, he finally found himself a feed

flinger on a filthy farm. Flushed and fairly

famished, he fain would have filled his frame with

foraged food from farm fodder.

The frazzled fugitive focused his fancies: "My

father's flunkies fare far finer." Frustrated and

filled with foreboding, he fled forthwith to his

father. Falling at his father's feet he forlornly

fumbled, "Father, I have flunked out and frugallessly

forfeited family favor."

Faultfinding and fuming, the fugitive's firstborn

fraternal family fellow fretted and frowned on fickle

forgiveness, but the faithful father figure, filled

with fidelity, forthwith forewarned, "The fugitive is

found. What forbids further festivities? Let the

flags unfurl and the fanfares flare!" Father

flagged down a flunky who fetched a fitting fatling

from the family flock and fixed a fabulous feast.

Felicitous finish: The father's fervent forgiveness

formed a foundation for the fugitive's future fortitude.

Marc