One of my favorite parables appears in today's reading from the Gospel of Luke. If your "a" list guest does not accept your invitation go to your "b" list. Such is the Kingdom of God. In the parable of "the wedding feast" there is a message that we are to invite whoever will come into the Kingdom. What if we could make this common practice in the church? If we would not worry about just inviting people who like us or are like us, we would fill our facilities. What a thought! Here is the parable...
"'Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.' 'Sir,' the servant said, 'what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.' "Then the master told his servant, 'Go out to the roads and country lanes and make them come in, so that my house will be full. I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.' "
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