REINHARD BONNKE-Salvation means that human failure need not be final.

Failure gave the Prodigal Son a chance to be a true son. “My son was dead, but is alive again”. That Father had lost his son long before he left home. As a son he was dead - even while he sat at table and ate his father’s provision. But after he had crashed and crawled home a wreck of a man, be became a living son. Then - not till then, did he receive the tokens of sonship. Before, when he lived a...t home, he received no ring, no best robe, no feast, no singing and merriment. The father could not be merry over the kind of son he had before - snug, conceited self-sufficiency, who thought little about the old man, whom he despised as an old-fashioned Dad. But when he came home, and saw what his father’s love was like, he learned then to be a son. (Luke 15) Salvation means that human failure need not be final. God bless you. REINHARD BONNKE