Coming Home
Coming Home Luke 15:11–32; Acts 14:21–28; Zechariah 1:1–6 This message explores three distinct reasons for coming home, revealing how God's grace works in us, through us, and continues to call us back to Himself. Through these three scenes, we discover that coming home is much more than returning to a familiar place. It's an opportunity to testify of God's faithfulness, celebrate His transforming work, and examine whether our hearts are truly abiding in Him. First, we come home to tell what God has done in us. In Luke 15, the prodigal son leaves his father's house believing he knows a better way to live. After wasting his inheritance and experiencing the emptiness of life apart from his father, he comes to himself, acknowledges his sin, and returns home. Rather than condemnation, he encounters compassion, forgiveness, and restoration. His homecoming illustrates the transforming grace of God, reminding us that repentance brings us back to the Father and gives us a testimony worth celebrating. Second, we come home to tell what God has done through us. In Acts 14, Paul and Barnabas return to their sending fellowship and report everything God accomplished through their missionary journey. Despite opposition, suffering, and rejection, they remained faithful to their calling to reach the lost, reinforce disciples, and refresh the family of God. Their example reveals the heart of kingdom-minded servants: a devotion without limits, diligence undeterred by rejection, duty independent of praise, delight unaffected by inconvenience, determination not dependent upon affirmation, and a gospel declaration unchanged by the times. Their homecoming was an opportunity to glorify God fo