is called "prevenient grace.” Prevenient grace is grace that goes
before us. In this parable, it followed, surrounded, and sustained
the younger son.
While the son was still far away, before he even had a chance to
ask his father for forgiveness, the father ran to him. The father
loves his son just the way he is. We call this “justifying grace." I
is just as if the son never left or never sinned. This grace does no
depend on anything the son did or didn't do. The only thing the
son needed to do was respond with gratitude.
Use the space provided to reflect on the following:
Why, do you think, did the son leave his home and family?
• To live a new life, what did the prodigal son have to recognize
was going on in his life?
• What did he have to do to receive his new li
