Core Truth: How long have we "lived in the Father's house and failed to understand His heart?" The more we recognize how much we ourselves have been given by sheer grace the more patient, generous and forgiving we will find ourselves able to be toward others.
Scripture: Luke 15:28-30
"But the elder brother was angry and resolved not to go in. Then his father came out and began to plead with him. But he answered his father, 'Look! These many years I have served you, and I have never disobeyed your command. Yet you never gave me so much as a little kid that I might revel and feast and be happy and make merry with my friends. But when this son of yours arrived, who has devoured your estate with prostitutes, you have killed for him the [wheat-] fattened calf!'".