November 20th, 2022 - Caring Encounters: Jesus Hospitality #3 – Encountering Wisdom's Children

Caring Encounters: Jesus Hospitality – Encountering Wisdom’s Children
Scripture Passage:  Luke 7: 31-50

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What is Jesus doing?

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Jesus: Wisdom is proved right by all her children

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Luke - a carefully ordered gospel

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Table Fellowship:
crucial to the Israelites

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The Scene:
Jesus at the House of Simon

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Pharisees:
Longing for perfect obedience

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A new (and questionable)
character enters

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The meaning and mystery
of unbound hair

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Simon's cringing discomfort

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Jesus' Response:
1) Adress Simon

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Jesus' Response:
2) Invitation to "see" the woman

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Jesus' Response:
3) compare the two

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Compare them...as hosts?

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A community of three hosts

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The woman and the pharisee:
Invited as Wisdom's children

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We are invited as Wisdom's children
(What does this mean for us?)

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Their story, our story,
not neatly tied up.
And yet we are invited.