Direct Answer
What is lost is a whole life turned toward God. The overflowing version reaches beyond a belief about Jesus and takes in love for God, love for neighbor, and righteous living to the end of life.
Support from the Message
- The two tablespoons are changing your mind about whether Jesus died for your sins, and changing your mind about whether your actions connect to your salvation. - Jason Willis says forgiveness of past, present, and future sins came from the sermons he heard, and that this teaching did not appear until the Reformation around the 1500s. - He points to Martin Luther's 1521 letter to Philip, which told him to sin boldly and rejoice in Christ more boldly. - For early Christians, the change of mind was about loving God with all your mind, strength, body, and soul, and loving your neighbor as yourself. - Jason improves his picture to a ten-gallon pot with a hose left running, so repentance overflows.
Discussion Follow-up
Which tablespoon sounds most like the faith you were taught? What part of the overflowing version is missing in your life?