Including the excluded: Luke 14:1–14. (August 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Younger, Brett
• Is Part Of: Review and expositor. Volume 116:Number 3(2019:Aug.)
• Page Start: 351
• Page End: 354
• Publication Date: 2019-08
• Subjects: compassion -- homeless -- hospitality -- panhandlers -- Pharisees -- table; Baptists -- Periodicals; Theology -- Periodicals; 286
• DOI: 10.1177/0034637319867403
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0034-6373

Abstract

Unfortunately, sometimes, the underprivileged feel like a problem to be solved. Reading a story such as Luke 14:1–14 and realizing that Jesus has more in common with the homeless than with most of us is uncomfortable. Whereas Pharisees like us are pushing to the head of a rectangular table, Jesus' table is a circle where no person is better than another.