Who Gets Invited?
How can you embody God’s welcome, belonging, and blessing?
Luke 14:13-14
When you have a reception, invite those who are poor or have physical infirmities or are blind. You should be pleased that they can’t repay you, for you’ll be repaid at the resurrection of the just.
So often our priorities and behaviors are shaped by the systems of logic to which our minds are aligned–why Paul says to no longer conform to the ‘patterns of this world,’ but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.
In this dramatic confrontation at a home dinner fellowship, Jesus confronts not just the behavior taking place but the undergirding system, a system of social patronage based upon hierarchy, competition, and self-gain, the motivations for inviting people who could repay you and would be socially indebted to you.
The logic of God’s Reign flips this, toward an imagination of Creation’s abundance, and practices of welcome, belonging, and blessing. God’s banquet is for all, especially for the ones who are usually excluded.
What logics or imaginations do you see conflicting in yourself or your community with the logic of abundance? How can you embody God’s welcome, belonging, and blessing?
— Evan Amo
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