Tim Keller concludes his message with 5 things church leaders can do to help lead their people to the prodigal God:

Spiritual renewal has to happen in the heart by the Holy Spirit; it has to be happening now as we think of Jesus' love. That destroys the spiritual deadness of our elder-brotherism. We have to drill this gospel down into our hearts. Otherwise, people think that asking Jesus into their hearts means "Now we should try hard to live for Jesus."

1. As leaders we have to receive this gospel into our hearts. I was reading Romans 1:16, "He who through faith is righteous shall live," and the Holy Spirit whispered to me, "and he who through preaching is righteous dies a thousand deaths every Saturday night." The reason we take criticism so hard, the reason we care so much about attendance, the reason we work so hard, is that our salvation is still our performance; we're not living by the gospel.

A 200-year-old text says, "Don't go into the ministry to save your own soul." At first, ...