While attending a meal with religious leaders in Luke 14:1-24, Jesus broke with social norms and caused multiple disruptions. His goal was not to offend but to instruct, first about the use of the Sabbath day and then about the kingdom of God, which he compared to a great banquet. At the end of the parable, the invitation is still going out, so let’s enter while there is room.
Our little work of accepting each other in the church is part of the big work God is doing in the world.
Christian thinking is thinking like Jesus, especially as seen in his becoming one of us to die on the cross.
Jesus' power over the forces of evil demonstrated that the kingdom of God had come.
