{"id":304130,"date":"2016-08-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/prodigals-in-all-shapes-and-sizes\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T15:00:00","slug":"prodigals-in-all-shapes-and-sizes","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/prodigals-in-all-shapes-and-sizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Prodigals in All Shapes and Sizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>guest: Phil Waldrep | Series: Reaching Your Prodigal | Prodigals come in all shapes and sizes. Phil Waldrep, founder of Phil Waldrep Evangelistic Association, explains the motives behind the various types of prodigals, from the embarrassing prodigal to the intellectual prodigal and every kind in between. 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Here\u2019s pastor and author, Phil Waldrep.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Unconditional love is a love that says: \u201cMy love is not dependent on your performance. If you\u2019re good, I don\u2019t love you more. If you\u2019re bad, I don\u2019t love you less.\u201d Now, it\u2019s followed up very quickly, I think, by understanding unconditional love does not mean I rescue the prodigal every time they get in trouble. <em>Instead<\/em>, unconditional love says, \u201cI\u2019m going to let you face the consequences of your decisions, but I\u2019ve made the choice to love you regardless of your actions.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, August 16<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ll spend time today focusing on how we, as parents, can love and pray for a child who has wandered from his or her faith. Stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I have heard you over the years talk about two different kinds of prodigals. There are those who say, \u201cI\u2019m taking my share of the inheritance\u201d; and they leave home, and they go live in the far country. But there can be prodigals, who still have a bedroom upstairs and are at the dinner table every night; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; we basically had two kinds of prodigals\u2014an in-house prodigal \/ the one who\u2019s still living at home\u2014and an out-of-house\u2014 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Not outhouse.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Not outhouse\u2014[Laughter]\u2014but an out-of-house prodigal. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur guest today has got more than two\u2014though I want him to go through these\u2014let me just introduce to our listeners today, Phil Waldrep, who joins us again. Welcome back, Phil.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Thank you. It\u2019s great to be here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>He has two children and two grandchildren. He\u2019s been married to his wife Debbie since\u2014when?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> 1984.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Congratulations.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Well, thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I want to talk about your book, <em>Reaching Your Prodigal: What Did I Do Wrong? What Do I Do Now? <\/em>I want you to go through\u2014and I\u2019ll feed these to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And you can just explain each one of these. I had two\u2014you\u2019ve got like half a dozen here. Just really quickly explain what the \u201cembarrassing prodigal\u201d is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Well, an embarrassing prodigal is a child who has walked away from their faith and walked away from any kind of moral standard. They\u2019re engaging in behavior that is embarrassing their parents. That could be\u2014you know, a child who\u2019s constantly being arrested \/ it could be a child who is having a child out of wedlock. They are doing something that is embarrassing us, as parents.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> What about the \u201cdefiant prodigal\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> I see that as a prodigal who maybe an embarrassing prodigal to a greater degree. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey are intentionally trying to embarrass and hurt their parents. The embarrassing prodigal\u2014just to make a distinction\u2014may not necessarily be motivated by trying to embarrass their parents, but the defiant prodigal wants to embarrass their parents. I find that, a lot of times, when a parent is in ministry, for example, that their child wants to be so distant from them that they engage in behavior that is calling attention to their behavior because they want to <em>hurt<\/em> their parents.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> One would be more like a na\u00efve person that the Proverbs speak about\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014that could be the embarrassing prodigal. And the defiant one could be the fool\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Right; very good distinction.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014who is just choosing a wrong way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHow about the \u201cintellectual prodigal\u201d? I want to hear what this one is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Well, sometimes, kids go off to college; and they decide that they no longer want to believe the Christian faith or Christian worldview. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey may be morally good kids, but they have intellectually rejected Christianity. The parents are proud that their child is off at the major university, and making great grades, and finishing their PhD; but privately, they know they have abandoned the faith. So they may not necessarily be engaged in behavior that is embarrassing them, but their child has walked away at the intellectual level.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Not going to church any more.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> And may even be blogging at this point and saying: \u201cI grew up in a Christian home but came to a point where I realized that there is no God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u201cI just don\u2019t\u2014I\u2019ve rejected it. My life is happier now than it used to be.\u201d That can, like you said, be embarrassing for a lot of parents to see that online.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> And the one thing that separates them from the first two is\u2014there\u2019s a sense where the parents are very proud of the intellectual prodigal\u2014they\u2019ve done well in school \/ they\u2019ve succeeded\u2014but, privately, they\u2019re [parents are] hurting because they\u2019ve [child has] rejected the faith.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> This next one, I would say, was <em>me<\/em> in high school and early college\u2014it\u2019s the \u201creligious prodigal.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> The religious prodigal can have various forms. We\u2019re living in a time when people have kids who go off and join a cult. I recently talked to a mother who was heart-broken because her son, who was reared in a wonderful church, came home and told his parents one day that he had decided to become a Buddhist. And even though he, outwardly, has behavior that we would applaud; he had abandoned Christianity. He still believed in God \/ he still didn\u2019t consider himself an atheist, but he certainly was a prodigal in every sense of the word.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> The way I would describe myself\u2014I wasn\u2019t a part of a cult, unless it was the cult of self-ism \/ self-worship\u2014[Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Right!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014I just basically suffered from nominal Christianity, which is where, I think, the majority of prodigals find themselves. They\u2019re playing church and they\u2019re playing with God and the Scriptures, but they\u2019re not all in \/ they\u2019re not committed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You were still going to church at that time, from time to time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Sure; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> And if anybody had asked you, \u201cAre you a Christian?\u201d\u2014you\u2019d have said, \u201cYes.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Sure; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> But you were also kind of looking around and going, \u201cYou know, there is a lot about how the world does things that look appealing.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes; I was like the Proverb says\u2014and what I mentioned earlier\u2014I was a fool, and I was choosing my own way \/ not God\u2019s way. We\u2019re all just a step away from doing that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> One of the things that I noticed about religious prodigals, in particular, is they know all the answers. They don\u2019t try to argue with their parents \/ they agree with them. I find that parents sit down and say, \u201cWell, you need to believe in God.\u201d \u201cI do.\u201d \u201cYou need to love Jesus.\u201d \u201cI do.\u201d It becomes very difficult sometimes, especially when the religious prodigal, Dennis, is a reflection of where <em>you<\/em> were in those days is\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014you knew all the answers \/ you could fill in the blanks\u2014and you sometimes knew where your parents were going in the conversation before they got there. So it makes it a <em>little<\/em> difficult when there is that kind of complacency. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut when I speak of a religious prodigal, I really primarily focus on those who have walked away from the Christian faith and have joined themselves to another religious group or they\u2019ve embraced a different religious philosophy, if I could use that phrase. There are a lot more of those than we think\u2014than probably we think exist.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Whether your child is religious, or complacent, or defiant\u2014or whichever category this child fits in\u2014I\u2019m guessing that parents watch a child move toward becoming a prodigal\u2014some of them with slow steps. Mom and dad could kind of feel, \u201cIt feels like we\u2019re losing our son or daughter, but I\u2019m not sure what to do.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you sense a child is slipping away from what you\u2019ve taught them, are there things you do, early on, to try to bring them back?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Well, there are two things that I think are very important when you\u2019re dealing with a prodigal. Number one is\u2014you must always extend unconditional love. Unconditional love is a love that says: \u201cMy love is not dependent on your performance. If you\u2019re good, I don\u2019t love you more. If you\u2019re bad, I don\u2019t love you less.\u201d Now, sometimes that\u2019s a little harder to do than we really sometimes say in church; but it is the love God has for us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut let me tell you how, as a parent, you can tell if you have unconditional love. Does the behavior of your child ever make you <em>angry<\/em>? I don\u2019t mean it upsets us \/ it bothers us\u2014does it make us <em>angry<\/em>? In fact, when I wrote <em>Reaching Your Prodigal, <\/em>there\u2019s an illustration I give of two men who faced <em>very<\/em> similar situations.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBoth were men whom I knew very well. One was a man\u2014one day he\u2019s home. He\u2019s a leader in the community and a leader in his church. He is just a great example. We would applaud him as a great father and a great leader. But his teenage daughter came home and said: \u201cDad, mother will not tell you \/ I must tell you. I\u2019m going to have a baby.\u201d Of course, the girl wasn\u2019t married. The father looked at her and, by his own testimony, he got angry and he started pounding on the coffee table. He said: \u201cHow could you!? You have ruined my reputation! I just can\u2019t believe you did this!\u201d And, in his anger, he told her to get her things and get out\u2014he never wanted to see her again.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> He <em>bragged<\/em> about what he did because he said he was taking a stand against sin. In the church that man attended, about six months after that happened, on a Sunday evening, the pastor stood up and, with tears flowing down his cheeks, said: \u201cI need to share something with you, as my congregation. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cYou\u2019re going to hear it, so I want you to hear it from me first. We\u2019ve learned this week\u2014my wife and I\u2014that our daughter is going to be an unwed mother. We\u2019ve cried a lot \/ we are heart-broken, but we\u2019ve made a commitment that we are going to support our daughter because she has chosen to give this child life. If that means I need to resign as your pastor, I will. We\u2019re hurting \/ we are ashamed of what she\u2019s done, but we\u2019re not ashamed that she is our daughter.\u201d In front of the congregation, with the other man sitting in the pew, walked over to his daughter\u2014the pastor did\u2014and embraced her and said, \u201cI love you.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, I tell that story because here are two men, who both would argue they love their daughter; but one extended unconditional love when the other did not. It doesn\u2019t mean we approve the actions of our prodigal \/ it doesn\u2019t mean that we\u2019re approving their sin; but it does mean, \u201cI\u2019ve made the choice to love you regardless of your actions.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat, I believe, is the most important thing we can do. Now, it\u2019s followed up very quickly, I think, by understanding unconditional love does not mean I rescue the prodigal every time they get in trouble. <em>Instead<\/em>, unconditional love says, \u201cI\u2019m going to let you face the consequences of your decisions.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo the father in Luke 15 loved his son unconditionally; but when his son went to the far country, there were some things the father didn\u2019t do. He didn\u2019t send him money \/ he didn\u2019t send a servant with soup and a sandwich. Sure, it would have gotten him out of the pig pen\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> \u2014but it wouldn\u2019t have gotten him home. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo I think\u2014to your question, Bob\u2014that the thing that we must do, as parents, is love our kids unconditionally. They need to know that their performance and our love are not related. But, at the same time, our love says, \u201cWhen you make bad choices\u201d\u2014especially when we\u2019re dealing with adult prodigals, who are away from home\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cWhen you make bad choices, I\u2019m going to love you; but I\u2019m going to let you face the consequences of what you\u2019ve done.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo that means, as a parent, I go see them in jail; but I don\u2019t get them out of jail. Now, I believe you can extend grace the first time. Sometimes, prodigals understand and they learn. But you go to them and you say: \u201cI love you. I\u2019m going to come visit you every day, and I\u2019m going to support you; but I\u2019m not going to get you out of jail,\u201d \/ \u201cSon, I will help you get into a program for your gambling addiction, but I\u2019m not going to go take out a second mortgage to pay the gambling debts.\u201d Because one of the things we do, as parents, when we have prodigals\u2014especially when they are embarrassing prodigals and they\u2019re doing addictive behaviors\u2014is that we must say to them, \u201cI love you so much I\u2019m going to let you face the consequences,\u201d because the son in the story of the prodigal son came to himself in a pigpen. If he had never gotten in the pigpen, he would have never gotten home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Sometimes it\u2019s hard! I think that\u2019s the hardest thing, as parents, we do\u2014is to let our kids spend some time in the pigpen \/ to come to themselves as a result of <em>their<\/em> choices\u2014not because we <em>force<\/em> them to the pigpen\u2014but <em>their<\/em> choices \/ <em>their<\/em> decisions\u2014they get to face the results of those decisions.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I want to unpack just a little bit more because I think you\u2019re on target here. I think a parent is set up to be a rescuer. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> A number of years ago, I was talking to a dad\u2014I ran into him, and he was weeping. He said: \u201cI just got a phone call from my son. His girlfriend has broken off their engagement.\u201d I started talking to him about his son. I said: \u201cHow\u2019s your son doing spiritually? How\u2019s he going to handle this?\u201d \u201cWell, he\u2019s not been doing well for a long time.\u201d I continued to unpack it and found out\u2014well, his son was co-habiting with the young lady\u2014he had been living with her for some time. I said: \u201cCan I say something to you? Don\u2019t rescue your son.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Good advice.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> The father\u2014I\u2019m convinced\u2014the father would have delighted in finding a way of rescuing his son from the pain of this girl breaking up with him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We\u2019re talking to Phil Waldrep, who has written a book called <em>Reaching Your Prodigal: What Did I Do Wrong? What Do I Do Now?<\/em> \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m just curious\u2014in a situation where you\u2019ve been able to have a hard conversation with a son or a daughter, who\u2019s been drifting away, and you think you\u2019ve got them back where they belong, do you put extra rules and boundaries around that child to try to keep them safe; or do you just let life go on?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Are you talking about when a prodigal comes back and says, \u201cI want to get my life straight\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I\u2019m talking about one who was kind of drifting\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014you\u2019ve caught them before they were a full-blown prodigal, and they come back. Do you ground them? Do you do those kinds of things, as a parent?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> I think there are always consequences to decisions. It\u2019s okay to say, \u201cAs a result of what you\u2019ve done, we\u2019re going to have to set some rules; and you will earn our trust.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> One of the things that a good friend of mine uses as an illustration\u2014he said to his daughter\u2014\u201cNow, think of it like this\u2014we have a rope tied around you. How much rope you get is going to be dependent on how much trust we have.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> \u201cSo when you demonstrate to us that we can trust you, we\u2019ll give you a little more rope.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Let the rope out; yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> \u201cAnd once you violate that, we\u2019re going to have to pull the rope back in.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think it\u2019s a good illustration for parents to kind of think through: \u201cYes, we can have rules and guidelines.\u201d By the way\u2014kids want guidelines. One of the things we were talking about earlier about <em>enabling<\/em> our children\u2014we often think of that when they\u2019re older; but I want to give a word to parents who ware listening, who have young children. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the things that I discovered, when I was researching prodigals, is enabling your children often starts when they\u2019re young. Let me give an illustration from my own life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen I was in\u2014I think it was the first grade, the teacher accused me of something that I can sit here today and tell you I did not do. I got in trouble at school for it. I came home and I told my father, who was a godly man\u2014I said, \u201cDad, I got punished at school for this; but I didn\u2019t do it.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy father sat me down and he said, \u201cWell, tell me your side of the story.\u201d I did. He said: \u201cWell, son, first of all, we\u2019re going to respect the teacher. Even if your teacher made a mistake, we want to support her. I\u2019m not saying I believe the teacher \/ I am not saying I believe you.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy father never allowed me to think the teacher was wrong. Now, I found out years later, that he went and had a meeting with the teacher and discovered that what I was telling him was the truth. He wasn\u2019t angry with the teacher\u2014he addressed it with the teacher. But he <em>never<\/em> let me know about what he had done because he wanted me to know that he was not going to come rescue me every time I got in trouble at school.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, in that case, I was innocent. There were other times, I must admit, I was guilty of things I did at school. But if I knew my father would go get onto the teacher, I would have been very quick to come home and he could have rescued me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe same is true even when kids start getting to be teenagers and they become young adults, and they\u2019re still at home. If we\u2019re not careful, we will start the enabling process of rescuing them every time they get in trouble. If we do, then\u2014when they\u2019re 25, and 30, and 35\u2014they still expect us to come do it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I remember a speeding ticket\u2014actually, it was for going around a corner on two wheels, as I recall, as a teenager. [Laughter] I got caught. It was back in the days when they had red lights on police cars. They pulled me over, and I was ticked off\u2014I was ticked at myself because it was going to cost me money. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI walked in the front door, and I kind of tossed the ticket at my dad. I said, \u201cYou need to be proud of your son\u2014I just got a ticket.\u201d I was full of shame that I had disappointed my dad. Do you know?\u2014my dad did not offer to pay that ticket.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Good.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> He just absorbed my little pity party and anger tantrum\u2014like a three-year-old, which was how I was acting, frankly. He let me go pay the bill. It was interesting\u2014I had saved a lot of change. I remember paying\u2014I forget what the fine was \/ it was like twenty bucks\u2014I paid it in quarters. I think I was trying, actually, to get back at the judge just a little bit in my arrogance, as a 16-\/17-year-old. But, to my dad\u2019s credit\u2014the very thing you\u2019re talking about\u2014he did not step in to take the force of the pain \/ remove it from me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019ll tell you\u2014Christian parents are notorious for this. We are so gullible and kids know how to manipulate us. They know how to play our strings. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI don\u2019t want to pick on moms here, but moms are a set-up\u2014they are! There\u2019s a mother\u2019s heart, I\u2019m telling you, that just wants to keep her child from ever experiencing pain. She\u2019s got to be tough! That\u2019s why you need to be one, as a couple. If you\u2019re facing something like this with a prodigal\u2014before you go down to the jail \/ before you go find your child down with the pigs\u2014decide what you\u2019re going to do \/ decide what your game plan is because your child needs you to be the parent and to really set the high road before them in terms of how they need to be restored.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Very true\u2014one thing I would add to that, too, Dennis\u2014you were talking about your father, and the speeding ticket, and allowing you to face the consequences of those decisions. I would add that you probably thought twice before you went speeding through town the next time. Yet, you know, one of the things that happens to a lot of parents\u2014and prodigals do this\u2014this is something parents need to understand: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tProdigals will tell us anything to get us to enable them or to fix their situation: \u201cMama, I promise, this will be the <em>last <\/em>time I will ever do it,\u201d \/ \u201cMama, I promise; I\u2019ll never do this again.\u201d \u201cWell, that\u2019s great! I\u2019m encouraged by those words, son. I\u2019m proud of you. Now, go pay the ticket.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou see, because they\u2019re willing to tell us <em>anything<\/em> to get <em>us<\/em> to fix their situation\u2014I would especially add that\u2019s true if you have very addictive behavior. If there are drug addictions, especially, I would caution parents: \u201cDon\u2019t rush to the rescue because, when you do, you\u2019re enabling and they\u2019ll tell you anything. That\u2019s very important to remember: \u2018Actions speak louder than words.\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> The best measure of what a man can do is what a man has done. If your child has been lying to you and has earned the label of being distrustful, the most important thing you can do is to <em>not<\/em> give the trust they\u2019re going fishing for. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> They\u2019ve got to earn it back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> They\u2019ve got to show you and demonstrate that they are worthy of regaining your trust, as a child.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Now, these are tricky waters for parents to be trying to navigate; and I\u2019m grateful that you offer guidance in the book that you\u2019ve written. There\u2019s not a formula you can follow \/ there\u2019s no recipe that guarantees that you\u2019ll reconnect with your prodigal son or daughter and that everything will turn out okay; but you have given us biblical wisdom and some best practices in the book that you\u2019ve written, which is called <em>Reaching Your Prodigal<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s a book that we\u2019ve got in our <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>Resource Center. Go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com; or call us at 1-800-FL-TODAY to request a copy of <em>Reaching Your Prodigal <\/em>by Phil Waldrep. Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com; and you can call to order at 1-800-358-6329. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, back on this day in 1980, it was a big day\u2014a red-letter day\u2014for David and Kim Delauter, who live in Greencastle, Pennsylvania. It was the day when a much younger version of them looked at each other and said, \u201cI do.\u201d \u201cCongratulations!\u201d to Kim and David on their 36<sup>th<\/sup> wedding anniversary today. They listen to <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>on WCRH\u2014just recently attended one of our <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> marriage getaways. 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Or you can mail your donation to <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>at PO Box 7111, Little Rock, AR; and our zip code is 72223. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy the way, if you\u2019re able to help support the ministry with a donation of, at least, $100 this month, we\u2019d love to send you three Bible studies designed for small groups to go through or for couples to go through on their own\u2014these are Bible studies on marriage\u2014part of <em>The Art of Marriage<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Connect Series. They\u2019re our gift to you when you request them. It\u2019s our way of saying, \u201cThank you for your support of the ministry during the month of August.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we want to talk about how we ought to be praying for a prodigal son or daughter. 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Here\u2019s pastor and author, Phil Waldrep.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Unconditional love is a love that says: \u201cMy love is not dependent on your performance. If you\u2019re good, I don\u2019t love you more. If you\u2019re bad, I don\u2019t love you less.\u201d Now, it\u2019s followed up very quickly, I think, by understanding unconditional love does not mean I rescue the prodigal every time they get in trouble. <em>Instead<\/em>, unconditional love says, \u201cI\u2019m going to let you face the consequences of your decisions, but I\u2019ve made the choice to love you regardless of your actions.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, August 16<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ll spend time today focusing on how we, as parents, can love and pray for a child who has wandered from his or her faith. Stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I have heard you over the years talk about two different kinds of prodigals. There are those who say, \u201cI\u2019m taking my share of the inheritance\u201d; and they leave home, and they go live in the far country. But there can be prodigals, who still have a bedroom upstairs and are at the dinner table every night; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; we basically had two kinds of prodigals\u2014an in-house prodigal \/ the one who\u2019s still living at home\u2014and an out-of-house\u2014 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Not outhouse.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Not outhouse\u2014[Laughter]\u2014but an out-of-house prodigal. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur guest today has got more than two\u2014though I want him to go through these\u2014let me just introduce to our listeners today, Phil Waldrep, who joins us again. Welcome back, Phil.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Thank you. It\u2019s great to be here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>He has two children and two grandchildren. He\u2019s been married to his wife Debbie since\u2014when?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> 1984.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Congratulations.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Well, thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I want to talk about your book, <em>Reaching Your Prodigal: What Did I Do Wrong? What Do I Do Now? <\/em>I want you to go through\u2014and I\u2019ll feed these to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And you can just explain each one of these. I had two\u2014you\u2019ve got like half a dozen here. Just really quickly explain what the \u201cembarrassing prodigal\u201d is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Well, an embarrassing prodigal is a child who has walked away from their faith and walked away from any kind of moral standard. They\u2019re engaging in behavior that is embarrassing their parents. That could be\u2014you know, a child who\u2019s constantly being arrested \/ it could be a child who is having a child out of wedlock. They are doing something that is embarrassing us, as parents.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> What about the \u201cdefiant prodigal\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> I see that as a prodigal who maybe an embarrassing prodigal to a greater degree. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey are intentionally trying to embarrass and hurt their parents. The embarrassing prodigal\u2014just to make a distinction\u2014may not necessarily be motivated by trying to embarrass their parents, but the defiant prodigal wants to embarrass their parents. I find that, a lot of times, when a parent is in ministry, for example, that their child wants to be so distant from them that they engage in behavior that is calling attention to their behavior because they want to <em>hurt<\/em> their parents.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> One would be more like a na\u00efve person that the Proverbs speak about\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014that could be the embarrassing prodigal. And the defiant one could be the fool\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Right; very good distinction.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014who is just choosing a wrong way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHow about the \u201cintellectual prodigal\u201d? I want to hear what this one is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Well, sometimes, kids go off to college; and they decide that they no longer want to believe the Christian faith or Christian worldview. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey may be morally good kids, but they have intellectually rejected Christianity. The parents are proud that their child is off at the major university, and making great grades, and finishing their PhD; but privately, they know they have abandoned the faith. So they may not necessarily be engaged in behavior that is embarrassing them, but their child has walked away at the intellectual level.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Not going to church any more.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> And may even be blogging at this point and saying: \u201cI grew up in a Christian home but came to a point where I realized that there is no God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u201cI just don\u2019t\u2014I\u2019ve rejected it. My life is happier now than it used to be.\u201d That can, like you said, be embarrassing for a lot of parents to see that online.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> And the one thing that separates them from the first two is\u2014there\u2019s a sense where the parents are very proud of the intellectual prodigal\u2014they\u2019ve done well in school \/ they\u2019ve succeeded\u2014but, privately, they\u2019re [parents are] hurting because they\u2019ve [child has] rejected the faith.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> This next one, I would say, was <em>me<\/em> in high school and early college\u2014it\u2019s the \u201creligious prodigal.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> The religious prodigal can have various forms. We\u2019re living in a time when people have kids who go off and join a cult. I recently talked to a mother who was heart-broken because her son, who was reared in a wonderful church, came home and told his parents one day that he had decided to become a Buddhist. And even though he, outwardly, has behavior that we would applaud; he had abandoned Christianity. He still believed in God \/ he still didn\u2019t consider himself an atheist, but he certainly was a prodigal in every sense of the word.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> The way I would describe myself\u2014I wasn\u2019t a part of a cult, unless it was the cult of self-ism \/ self-worship\u2014[Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Right!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014I just basically suffered from nominal Christianity, which is where, I think, the majority of prodigals find themselves. They\u2019re playing church and they\u2019re playing with God and the Scriptures, but they\u2019re not all in \/ they\u2019re not committed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You were still going to church at that time, from time to time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Sure; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> And if anybody had asked you, \u201cAre you a Christian?\u201d\u2014you\u2019d have said, \u201cYes.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Sure; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> But you were also kind of looking around and going, \u201cYou know, there is a lot about how the world does things that look appealing.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes; I was like the Proverb says\u2014and what I mentioned earlier\u2014I was a fool, and I was choosing my own way \/ not God\u2019s way. We\u2019re all just a step away from doing that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> One of the things that I noticed about religious prodigals, in particular, is they know all the answers. They don\u2019t try to argue with their parents \/ they agree with them. I find that parents sit down and say, \u201cWell, you need to believe in God.\u201d \u201cI do.\u201d \u201cYou need to love Jesus.\u201d \u201cI do.\u201d It becomes very difficult sometimes, especially when the religious prodigal, Dennis, is a reflection of where <em>you<\/em> were in those days is\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014you knew all the answers \/ you could fill in the blanks\u2014and you sometimes knew where your parents were going in the conversation before they got there. So it makes it a <em>little<\/em> difficult when there is that kind of complacency. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut when I speak of a religious prodigal, I really primarily focus on those who have walked away from the Christian faith and have joined themselves to another religious group or they\u2019ve embraced a different religious philosophy, if I could use that phrase. There are a lot more of those than we think\u2014than probably we think exist.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Whether your child is religious, or complacent, or defiant\u2014or whichever category this child fits in\u2014I\u2019m guessing that parents watch a child move toward becoming a prodigal\u2014some of them with slow steps. Mom and dad could kind of feel, \u201cIt feels like we\u2019re losing our son or daughter, but I\u2019m not sure what to do.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you sense a child is slipping away from what you\u2019ve taught them, are there things you do, early on, to try to bring them back?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Well, there are two things that I think are very important when you\u2019re dealing with a prodigal. Number one is\u2014you must always extend unconditional love. Unconditional love is a love that says: \u201cMy love is not dependent on your performance. If you\u2019re good, I don\u2019t love you more. If you\u2019re bad, I don\u2019t love you less.\u201d Now, sometimes that\u2019s a little harder to do than we really sometimes say in church; but it is the love God has for us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut let me tell you how, as a parent, you can tell if you have unconditional love. Does the behavior of your child ever make you <em>angry<\/em>? I don\u2019t mean it upsets us \/ it bothers us\u2014does it make us <em>angry<\/em>? In fact, when I wrote <em>Reaching Your Prodigal, <\/em>there\u2019s an illustration I give of two men who faced <em>very<\/em> similar situations.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBoth were men whom I knew very well. One was a man\u2014one day he\u2019s home. He\u2019s a leader in the community and a leader in his church. He is just a great example. We would applaud him as a great father and a great leader. But his teenage daughter came home and said: \u201cDad, mother will not tell you \/ I must tell you. I\u2019m going to have a baby.\u201d Of course, the girl wasn\u2019t married. The father looked at her and, by his own testimony, he got angry and he started pounding on the coffee table. He said: \u201cHow could you!? You have ruined my reputation! I just can\u2019t believe you did this!\u201d And, in his anger, he told her to get her things and get out\u2014he never wanted to see her again.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> He <em>bragged<\/em> about what he did because he said he was taking a stand against sin. In the church that man attended, about six months after that happened, on a Sunday evening, the pastor stood up and, with tears flowing down his cheeks, said: \u201cI need to share something with you, as my congregation. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cYou\u2019re going to hear it, so I want you to hear it from me first. We\u2019ve learned this week\u2014my wife and I\u2014that our daughter is going to be an unwed mother. We\u2019ve cried a lot \/ we are heart-broken, but we\u2019ve made a commitment that we are going to support our daughter because she has chosen to give this child life. If that means I need to resign as your pastor, I will. We\u2019re hurting \/ we are ashamed of what she\u2019s done, but we\u2019re not ashamed that she is our daughter.\u201d In front of the congregation, with the other man sitting in the pew, walked over to his daughter\u2014the pastor did\u2014and embraced her and said, \u201cI love you.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, I tell that story because here are two men, who both would argue they love their daughter; but one extended unconditional love when the other did not. It doesn\u2019t mean we approve the actions of our prodigal \/ it doesn\u2019t mean that we\u2019re approving their sin; but it does mean, \u201cI\u2019ve made the choice to love you regardless of your actions.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat, I believe, is the most important thing we can do. Now, it\u2019s followed up very quickly, I think, by understanding unconditional love does not mean I rescue the prodigal every time they get in trouble. <em>Instead<\/em>, unconditional love says, \u201cI\u2019m going to let you face the consequences of your decisions.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo the father in Luke 15 loved his son unconditionally; but when his son went to the far country, there were some things the father didn\u2019t do. He didn\u2019t send him money \/ he didn\u2019t send a servant with soup and a sandwich. Sure, it would have gotten him out of the pig pen\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> \u2014but it wouldn\u2019t have gotten him home. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo I think\u2014to your question, Bob\u2014that the thing that we must do, as parents, is love our kids unconditionally. They need to know that their performance and our love are not related. But, at the same time, our love says, \u201cWhen you make bad choices\u201d\u2014especially when we\u2019re dealing with adult prodigals, who are away from home\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cWhen you make bad choices, I\u2019m going to love you; but I\u2019m going to let you face the consequences of what you\u2019ve done.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo that means, as a parent, I go see them in jail; but I don\u2019t get them out of jail. Now, I believe you can extend grace the first time. Sometimes, prodigals understand and they learn. But you go to them and you say: \u201cI love you. I\u2019m going to come visit you every day, and I\u2019m going to support you; but I\u2019m not going to get you out of jail,\u201d \/ \u201cSon, I will help you get into a program for your gambling addiction, but I\u2019m not going to go take out a second mortgage to pay the gambling debts.\u201d Because one of the things we do, as parents, when we have prodigals\u2014especially when they are embarrassing prodigals and they\u2019re doing addictive behaviors\u2014is that we must say to them, \u201cI love you so much I\u2019m going to let you face the consequences,\u201d because the son in the story of the prodigal son came to himself in a pigpen. If he had never gotten in the pigpen, he would have never gotten home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Sometimes it\u2019s hard! I think that\u2019s the hardest thing, as parents, we do\u2014is to let our kids spend some time in the pigpen \/ to come to themselves as a result of <em>their<\/em> choices\u2014not because we <em>force<\/em> them to the pigpen\u2014but <em>their<\/em> choices \/ <em>their<\/em> decisions\u2014they get to face the results of those decisions.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I want to unpack just a little bit more because I think you\u2019re on target here. I think a parent is set up to be a rescuer. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> A number of years ago, I was talking to a dad\u2014I ran into him, and he was weeping. He said: \u201cI just got a phone call from my son. His girlfriend has broken off their engagement.\u201d I started talking to him about his son. I said: \u201cHow\u2019s your son doing spiritually? How\u2019s he going to handle this?\u201d \u201cWell, he\u2019s not been doing well for a long time.\u201d I continued to unpack it and found out\u2014well, his son was co-habiting with the young lady\u2014he had been living with her for some time. I said: \u201cCan I say something to you? Don\u2019t rescue your son.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Good advice.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> The father\u2014I\u2019m convinced\u2014the father would have delighted in finding a way of rescuing his son from the pain of this girl breaking up with him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We\u2019re talking to Phil Waldrep, who has written a book called <em>Reaching Your Prodigal: What Did I Do Wrong? What Do I Do Now?<\/em> \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m just curious\u2014in a situation where you\u2019ve been able to have a hard conversation with a son or a daughter, who\u2019s been drifting away, and you think you\u2019ve got them back where they belong, do you put extra rules and boundaries around that child to try to keep them safe; or do you just let life go on?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Are you talking about when a prodigal comes back and says, \u201cI want to get my life straight\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I\u2019m talking about one who was kind of drifting\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014you\u2019ve caught them before they were a full-blown prodigal, and they come back. Do you ground them? Do you do those kinds of things, as a parent?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> I think there are always consequences to decisions. It\u2019s okay to say, \u201cAs a result of what you\u2019ve done, we\u2019re going to have to set some rules; and you will earn our trust.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> One of the things that a good friend of mine uses as an illustration\u2014he said to his daughter\u2014\u201cNow, think of it like this\u2014we have a rope tied around you. How much rope you get is going to be dependent on how much trust we have.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> \u201cSo when you demonstrate to us that we can trust you, we\u2019ll give you a little more rope.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Let the rope out; yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> \u201cAnd once you violate that, we\u2019re going to have to pull the rope back in.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think it\u2019s a good illustration for parents to kind of think through: \u201cYes, we can have rules and guidelines.\u201d By the way\u2014kids want guidelines. One of the things we were talking about earlier about <em>enabling<\/em> our children\u2014we often think of that when they\u2019re older; but I want to give a word to parents who ware listening, who have young children. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the things that I discovered, when I was researching prodigals, is enabling your children often starts when they\u2019re young. Let me give an illustration from my own life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen I was in\u2014I think it was the first grade, the teacher accused me of something that I can sit here today and tell you I did not do. I got in trouble at school for it. I came home and I told my father, who was a godly man\u2014I said, \u201cDad, I got punished at school for this; but I didn\u2019t do it.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy father sat me down and he said, \u201cWell, tell me your side of the story.\u201d I did. He said: \u201cWell, son, first of all, we\u2019re going to respect the teacher. Even if your teacher made a mistake, we want to support her. I\u2019m not saying I believe the teacher \/ I am not saying I believe you.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy father never allowed me to think the teacher was wrong. Now, I found out years later, that he went and had a meeting with the teacher and discovered that what I was telling him was the truth. He wasn\u2019t angry with the teacher\u2014he addressed it with the teacher. But he <em>never<\/em> let me know about what he had done because he wanted me to know that he was not going to come rescue me every time I got in trouble at school.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, in that case, I was innocent. There were other times, I must admit, I was guilty of things I did at school. But if I knew my father would go get onto the teacher, I would have been very quick to come home and he could have rescued me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe same is true even when kids start getting to be teenagers and they become young adults, and they\u2019re still at home. If we\u2019re not careful, we will start the enabling process of rescuing them every time they get in trouble. If we do, then\u2014when they\u2019re 25, and 30, and 35\u2014they still expect us to come do it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I remember a speeding ticket\u2014actually, it was for going around a corner on two wheels, as I recall, as a teenager. [Laughter] I got caught. It was back in the days when they had red lights on police cars. They pulled me over, and I was ticked off\u2014I was ticked at myself because it was going to cost me money. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI walked in the front door, and I kind of tossed the ticket at my dad. I said, \u201cYou need to be proud of your son\u2014I just got a ticket.\u201d I was full of shame that I had disappointed my dad. Do you know?\u2014my dad did not offer to pay that ticket.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Good.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> He just absorbed my little pity party and anger tantrum\u2014like a three-year-old, which was how I was acting, frankly. He let me go pay the bill. It was interesting\u2014I had saved a lot of change. I remember paying\u2014I forget what the fine was \/ it was like twenty bucks\u2014I paid it in quarters. I think I was trying, actually, to get back at the judge just a little bit in my arrogance, as a 16-\/17-year-old. But, to my dad\u2019s credit\u2014the very thing you\u2019re talking about\u2014he did not step in to take the force of the pain \/ remove it from me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019ll tell you\u2014Christian parents are notorious for this. We are so gullible and kids know how to manipulate us. They know how to play our strings. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI don\u2019t want to pick on moms here, but moms are a set-up\u2014they are! There\u2019s a mother\u2019s heart, I\u2019m telling you, that just wants to keep her child from ever experiencing pain. She\u2019s got to be tough! That\u2019s why you need to be one, as a couple. If you\u2019re facing something like this with a prodigal\u2014before you go down to the jail \/ before you go find your child down with the pigs\u2014decide what you\u2019re going to do \/ decide what your game plan is because your child needs you to be the parent and to really set the high road before them in terms of how they need to be restored.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Very true\u2014one thing I would add to that, too, Dennis\u2014you were talking about your father, and the speeding ticket, and allowing you to face the consequences of those decisions. I would add that you probably thought twice before you went speeding through town the next time. Yet, you know, one of the things that happens to a lot of parents\u2014and prodigals do this\u2014this is something parents need to understand: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tProdigals will tell us anything to get us to enable them or to fix their situation: \u201cMama, I promise, this will be the <em>last <\/em>time I will ever do it,\u201d \/ \u201cMama, I promise; I\u2019ll never do this again.\u201d \u201cWell, that\u2019s great! I\u2019m encouraged by those words, son. I\u2019m proud of you. Now, go pay the ticket.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou see, because they\u2019re willing to tell us <em>anything<\/em> to get <em>us<\/em> to fix their situation\u2014I would especially add that\u2019s true if you have very addictive behavior. If there are drug addictions, especially, I would caution parents: \u201cDon\u2019t rush to the rescue because, when you do, you\u2019re enabling and they\u2019ll tell you anything. That\u2019s very important to remember: \u2018Actions speak louder than words.\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> The best measure of what a man can do is what a man has done. If your child has been lying to you and has earned the label of being distrustful, the most important thing you can do is to <em>not<\/em> give the trust they\u2019re going fishing for. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> They\u2019ve got to earn it back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> They\u2019ve got to show you and demonstrate that they are worthy of regaining your trust, as a child.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Now, these are tricky waters for parents to be trying to navigate; and I\u2019m grateful that you offer guidance in the book that you\u2019ve written. There\u2019s not a formula you can follow \/ there\u2019s no recipe that guarantees that you\u2019ll reconnect with your prodigal son or daughter and that everything will turn out okay; but you have given us biblical wisdom and some best practices in the book that you\u2019ve written, which is called <em>Reaching Your Prodigal<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s a book that we\u2019ve got in our <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>Resource Center. Go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com; or call us at 1-800-FL-TODAY to request a copy of <em>Reaching Your Prodigal <\/em>by Phil Waldrep. Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com; and you can call to order at 1-800-358-6329. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, back on this day in 1980, it was a big day\u2014a red-letter day\u2014for David and Kim Delauter, who live in Greencastle, Pennsylvania. It was the day when a much younger version of them looked at each other and said, \u201cI do.\u201d \u201cCongratulations!\u201d to Kim and David on their 36<sup>th<\/sup> wedding anniversary today. They listen to <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>on WCRH\u2014just recently attended one of our <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> marriage getaways. We just wanted to say, \u201cCongratulations!\u201d as you celebrate 36 years of marriage today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe think anniversaries are a big deal. We\u2019re The Proud Sponsor of Anniversaries<sup>\u2122<\/sup>, here, at FamilyLife. Our goal is to provide practical biblical help and hope for marriages and families so that every home becomes a godly home. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMany of you share that goal with us because you are donors\u2014supporters of this ministry\u2014you\u2019re Legacy Partners, making a monthly contribution in support of what we\u2019re doing. Thank you for all you do in partnership with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe were in a meeting recently; and we were discussing the fact that, during the first seven months of this year, we\u2019ve actually seen a decline in the number of people supporting <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em> We thought: \u201cLet\u2019s go to our listeners and just ask the\u00a0 question: \u2018If you\u2019ve not given a donation this year to support this ministry, is that something you might consider doing here, between now and the end of August? Help us get caught up a little bit?\u2019\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s easy to do. You can donate online at FamilyLifeToday.com; you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to make a donation. Or you can mail your donation to <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>at PO Box 7111, Little Rock, AR; and our zip code is 72223. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy the way, if you\u2019re able to help support the ministry with a donation of, at least, $100 this month, we\u2019d love to send you three Bible studies designed for small groups to go through or for couples to go through on their own\u2014these are Bible studies on marriage\u2014part of <em>The Art of Marriage<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Connect Series. They\u2019re our gift to you when you request them. It\u2019s our way of saying, \u201cThank you for your support of the ministry during the month of August.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we want to talk about how we ought to be praying for a prodigal son or daughter. 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