Jesus the Lost

If someone asks you, ‘What is the Gospel?’ You can tell them the parable of the prodigal son. Because everything that Jesus is and does is conveyed in this short parable. Jesus is the prodigal son. He makes possible even the possibility of reconciliation between God and humanity because, as the prodigal, he squandered his father’s possessions in the far country before returning home. And we who are sinners are carried with and by Jesus on his way home. Because of him, we are reconciled to our God and Father.