"A Parable About Our Priorities" (Luke 14)

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This spring, we’re looking at the parables of Jesus in the New Testament book of Luke.In Luke 14, Jesus shows the religious leaders of his day, that by rejecting his message, they are keeping themselves out of God’s end-times kingdom banquet. Jesus wants them (and us) to see the how important it is to receive him as King, and how tragic it is to refuse or ignore him when he calls to us. QUOTES: “From time to time … I have noted that a particular parable is difficult to interpret, and have mentioned several ways the details of the story could be taken. That problem does not exist with [this] parable …. On the contrary, it is all too clear. It speaks of God's gracious invitation to us in the gospel and of the indifferent and arrogant way men and women sometimes respond to it …. The unique element in the parable before us is the willful refusal of those who were invited. It was not that they could not come. Rather, they would not.“ - James Montgomery Boice“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done”, and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” — C.S. Lewis“At it’s worst, it was a toxic, political club used to make others feel miserable and left out. At its best, it planned parties." —Pam Halpert (speaking about the Dunder Mifflin Party Planning Committee, and also, perhaps, about a Pharisee social gathering)