An exceedingly busy week, and the inevitable sermon deconstruction
As slice-of-life journal entries go, this one is actually a fairly poor example, because this week has (thankfully) been a bit more extreme than the usual
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The sheep doesn't stay lost in the story. It returns home with the shepherd.
I think you're right that everyone is lost, and that you can't preach to someone else who is lost without agreeing that you're lost somewhere too.
But the story is not about the value in getting lost, or in staying lost. It's about coming home. And even though you get the sense from the story that the shepherd would keep finding the sheep if it got lost again, or perhaps find the sheep slowly, piece by piece (if parts of it were missing), in the end, the whole sheep comes home and stays.
And while I get that you can't come home without being lost first, I'm not sure there's injunction to get lost, just so you can come home. Just find where you're missing.
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