“3 Dinner Invitations That Will Change Your Life”

A life-altering dinner invitation is one you accept and, when you go, you meet someone who later becomes your spouse. Or you have a conversation that changes how you’ve been approaching a major challenge in your life. Or the connections you make at the dinner land you a new job.

Any of those are life-altering and life-changing.

This weekend we’re looking at three dinner invitations from Jesus that change our lives in the best ways possible.

Jesus spent a lot of time eating with people. He accepted a lot of dinner invitations. But in Luke 15 he’s doing the inviting, and all the invitations are framed around a meal.

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To Help or Not to Help

by John Eiselt

We have all been there.

You pull up to a stoplight and there is someone asking for help.

You are approached while walking on the street and asked if you have any change to spare.

You see a young family holding a sign requesting help in the form of gas for their car, and food for their children.

Maybe you see a humanitarian issue or need that is in another part of our country or world.

Your heart goes out to the people affected, while your brain begins to calculate a common internal dilemma.

First. it's a question of whether you should help. Next is a question of how. Finally is the question of whether or not the help you could provide will really help those who are in need.

Jesus has a lot to say about helping people in need.

Showing mercy to others with our actions is an integral part of living as his followers. He showed us what this looks like through his own actions and he told us what this looks like using stories to help us better understand how to bring this to our own lives and the world around us. 

The story of the Good Samaritan is one such story. It's a story is about asking the right question, living in a bigger story, and making margin to show mercy.

Join us this weekend as we experience God together and uncover why Jesus told this story and what it means for us today.