St Timothy Presbyterian Church

Scripture Passage Luke 14:1-7-14 Worship Video Worship Audio Sermon Script In or Out In or Out? This is very important to so many people. Nobody wants to be out. Everybody wants to be in. It is not a good feeling to be rejected. Everybody wants to be wanted and welcomed. Even among friends, we get hurt when we feel excluded. One of the greatest headaches in planning the wedding is to decide who to invite and not only that – where to seat them. I think It was the same 2,000 years ago. That's why Jesus used a parable of a wedding banquet. Not only people want to be in but they want to be at the highest place. Jesus said this, knowing what people wanted: do not sit down at the place of honour (Luke 14:8) People measure their worth by how well accepted they are. So people try so hard to be accepted. To feel important. To feel worthy. If that is the measure of your worth, Jesus did not do very well. He was rejected, hated, abandoned, and killed. But Jesus never measured his worth by how well he was accepted. He