“It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.” - Mark Twain
As you read this quote, think on it in line with the following challenge from Jesus:
Luke 14:7-10 - When he noticed how the guests chose the
places of honour, he told them a
parable. "When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at
the place of honour, in case someone
more distinguished than you has been invited by your host; and
the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, 'Give this person
your place,' and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place.
But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when
your host comes, he may say to you, 'Friend, move up higher'; then you will be
honoured in the presence of all who sit at the table
with you.
Is there a clear message in this for us as individuals or even as communities?
Are we as 'the church' also guilty of this in some way?
Living in Grace
D3LM3
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