One Lost Sheep

Jul 15, 2026

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One Lost Sheep draws from Luke 15:1-7 to narrate Jesus’ parable of a shepherd who leaves ninety-nine sheep in the open country to search for the one that is lost. The story highlights joyful reunion—placing the found sheep on his shoulders and celebrating with friends. It concludes with Jesus’ teaching that greater celebration happens in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine who do not need to repent.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryReligion & Spirituality

FormatPDF

Pages12

Reading Time30 min

Luke 15:1-2

Religious leaders’ complaint

Luke 15:3-6

The shepherd searches and finds

Luke 15:7

Celebration in heaven

003 One Lost Sheep Luke 15:1-7 English Bible Content for the Title Slide (slide \#0) in the Story Producer App Either "gray-background" or "front-cover-picture", to indicate your choice for the title slide image: gray-background Scripture reference or a subtitle for your story, in the LWC: Luke 15 Something like "Ideas for the story title:", in the LWC: Title ideas: A sample title in the LWC (Required): (Also record audio for this title.) One Lost Sheep Another sample title in the LWC (Optional): The Lost Sheep Another sample title in the LWC (Optional): Joy Over a Sinner Who Repents Another sample title in the LWC (Optional): Another sample title in the LWC (Optional): Many sinful people came to listen to Jesus teach. But the religious leaders complained and said to each other,“This Jesus welcomes sinners and eats with them.” Luke 15:1-2 So Jesus told them this story: ”A man owned 100 sheep. One day, he lost one of them.” Luke 15:3-4 “The man left the other 99 sheep in the open country and searched for the one lost sheep until he found it.” Luke 15:4 “When he found the lost sheep, he put the sheep on his shoulders and joyfully went home. He called his friends and neighbors and said,“Be happy and celebrate with me! I found my lost sheep!” Luke 15:5-6 Then Jesus said to all who were there,“I tell you there will be much more celebrating in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 people who do not need to repent.” Luke 15:7 003 One Lost Sheep English United States Copyright © 2026, SIL Global [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) You are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc. This book is an adaptation of the original, 003 One Lost Sheep , © 2022 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc.. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Images by Jim Padgett, © 1984 Sweet Publishing under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. Images adapted by SIL Global. (Some adapted with Gemini AI) Story and Music © 2026 SIL Global under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

FAQs

What happens in the parable of the lost sheep?

A man who owns 100 sheep loses one and searches for it until he finds it. He joyfully returns and celebrates with friends and neighbors.

Why did Jesus tell this story according to the passage?

Many people came to listen to Jesus, and religious leaders complained because Jesus welcomed sinners and ate with them.

What teaching does Jesus give in Luke 15:7?

Jesus says there will be much more celebrating in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine people who do not need to repent.

Jul 15, 2026

Upload by Patrick