Posts Tagged ‘Luke 14:1 & 7-14’

Pentecost XII

Luke 14:1, 7-14

There’s more going on in this story Jesus tells than meets the eye.  Jesus’ most obvious point is about distinctions between people, the invidious, sometimes tempting desire to distinguish ourselves from others to make ourselves look better, more important, higher than we might otherwise appear.  I’ll come back to that.  There’s also something more subtle going on here in this story about who is at the table. Read More