prodigal listener-addendum

A point I'd like to clarify: When I said that it was the older brother's responsibility to go out and find his brother, it should be stated that this responsibility's source is the Bible, not culture. I don't know if that was a cultural standard or not, but Keller was the one to point out this responsibility to me (indirectly, of course). He referenced the story of Cain and Abel in Genesis, and God's telling Cain that he is indeed his brother's keeper.

This is also the implication that Christ makes when telling these parables; the prodigal parable is the last of three. The first two involved something getting lost, and someone going out to find it. The lack of searching for the lost thing in the third parable is supposed to be glaringly obvious, and point us to Christ, the one who searches for His lost things [...us].