Today's  Quote

You're worried about permissiveness - about the way he preaching of 
grace seems to say it's okay to do all kinds of terrible things as long 
as you just walk in afterward and take the free gift of God's 
forgiveness... While you and I may be worried about seeming to give 
permission, Jesus apparently wasn't. He wasn't afraid of giving the 
prodigal son a kiss instead of a lecture, a party instead of probation; 
and he proved that by bringing in the elder brother at the end of the 
story and having him raise pretty much the same objections you do. He's 
angry about the party. He complains that his father is lowering 
standards and ignoring virtue - that music, dancing, and a fatted calf 
are, in effect, just so many permissions to break the law. And to that, 
Jesus has the father say only one thing: "Cut that out! We're not 
playing good boys and bad boys any more. Your brother was dead and he's 
alive again. The name of the game from now on is resurrection, not 
bookkeeping."

Robert Farrar Capon

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