The Luke 14 Banquet
This amazing story and parable that is so easily over looked really stopped me in my tracks yesterday... I have been feeling a burden for our country and the Church as a whole for some time around this very topic. I don't worry about the Church because Jesus promised it would not fall and in the Book of Revelation God is sitting on the throne. Which means He isn't pacing, swaying and wondering if it is all going to work out. I do not doubt Him at all... But I do feel burdened for Christians. I feel like our world has tossed us in a pot of cold water and slowly started to turn up the heat and it is beginning to boil. So I read this scripture below and I really felt a call to pray for Christians to not merely be Christians but to be Disciples. Luke 14:7-33 (ESV) 7 Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, 8 “When you are invited by someone to a we...