Adopted: The Rebellious, The Religious and The Resurrected

This passage is titled the prodigal son. Prodigal is defined as having or giving something on a lavish scale or a person who spends in an extravagant way.  Author and theologian Tim Keller wrote a book renaming this parable The Prodigal God because there’s no one more extravagant and lavish in this parable than God the Father. This parable is ultimately about Him, His extravagant love and the ways His children respond.  Never having encountered a love like God’s, we all respond one of three ways — we rebel, we become religious or we are resurrected.  But none of us goes untouched by the love of the Prodigal God.