A boy in Chicago kept walking clear across the city to his old Sunday school after his family moved, and when someone asked why, he said simply, "Because they love me over there." Stephen Davey opens with that story to explain why tax collectors and sinners kept crowding around Jesus — and why the Pharisees grumbled about it. In Luke 15, Jesus answers their complaint with a shepherd who leaves ninety-nine sheep to hunt one, and a woman sweeping her dirt floor for a single lost coin from her wedding dowry. Both stories end the same way: not with relief, but with a party. Davey then points out a detail most readers miss — the joy happens *before* the angels, meaning they're watching, not celebrating. So who's throwing the party? Possibly the friends and family already home, hearing the news.
What We'll Know About Earth, When We're In Heaven
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