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• does Thanksgiving fit with your present story?
• setting: spot-picking, well-to-do religious elite
• assume will be part of feast in Kingdom of God
• do we avoid the present by escaping into “the sweet
by-and-by”?
• double-invite method: rejecting 2nd = snub /
insult
• excuses flimsy: land / oxen not going anywhere
• host’s response: anger, “furious”
• are we thankful for false idols, wrong priorities?
• hall filled with those ‘without’ (poor,
crippled, etc.)
• who else are we inviting to our table besides “just
us”?
• Eat central in B.L.E.S.S. (Dave Ferguson): we all
have to!
• host further welcomes homeless, transients - not
AFFLUENT but AFFLICTED
• Jesus calls disciples who bear crosses / burdens
• qualified for feast by our weaknesses: can we be
thankful for these?
• when weak, sense Christ’s power rest on us
• Corrie Ten Boom found reason to be thankful for
pests