Preaching from Luke 15:8-10, Pastor David Watson continues the Black Sheep series by diving into the parable of the lost coin. Jesus tells this story — along with the parables of the lost sheep and the prodigal son — in direct response to the religious leaders' grumbling question: "Why does this man welcome sinners and eat with them?" Rather than getting lost in the debate over what the ten coins represented, Pastor David zeroes in on what he believes Jesus is really driving at: missing pieces are a serious matter. Whether it's a puzzle, a piece of IKEA furniture, or a diamond lost in a hay field, when one piece is gone, the whole thing is incomplete. And to God, every lost person carries that same weight of incompleteness.

From there, Pastor David unpacks what he calls "coin philosophy" and "coin anatomy." Coins can't lose themselves, and they can't unlose themselves — they simply end up in the dark, forgotten, until someone comes looking. That someone, Jesus makes clear, is God. Drawing on Matthew 22:20, Genesis 1, Psalm 139, and Romans 5, Pastor David reminds us that we bear the image of our Maker, and it is he who assigns our value — not our usefulness, our appearance, our success, or what anyone else has spoken over us. The search God conducts for lost people reveals their value, and the celebration that follows when one sinner repents defines the depth of his affection. Repentance, then, isn't about trying harder or cleaning yourself up — it's about choosing to believe what God has already declared to be true about you.