CMP Review 2025-06-29

The dinner of Luke 14 continues with a second parable from Christ. “The parable of the supper, which follows, is a parable all right,” explains N. T. Wright, “but Jesus really seems to have intended his hearers to take literally his radical suggestion about who to invite to dinner parties.

“Social conditions have changed, of course, and in many parts of the world, where people no longer live in small villages in which everyone knows everyone else’s business, where meals are eaten with the doors open and people wander to and fro at will (see 7:36–50), it may seem harder to put it into practice. Many Christians would have to try quite hard to find poor and disabled people to invite to a party—though I know some who do just that. Nobody can use the difference in circumstances as an excuse for ignoring the sharp edge of Jesus’ demand.”

Apparently Charlotte Mason did not want to ignore the sharp edge in her poem about this parable. Read or hear “The host reproved” by Charlotte Mason here.

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🖼️: Parable of the Great Banquet by Brunswick Monogrammist