Roman Dignitaries

Tax Collectors

High Priest/Sadducees

Pharisees

Common People(not concerned with the law)

Tax Collectors and Sinners

Lepers

Top 5%

Middle Class

Lowest/Pathetic

Luke 10:4-9

4 Don’t take any money with you, nor a traveler’s bag, nor an extra pair of sandals. And don’t stop to greet anyone on

the road.  5 “Whenever you enter someone’s home, first say, ‘May God’s peace be on this house.’ 6 If those who live there are peaceful, the blessing will stand; if they are not, the blessing will return to you. 7 Don’t move around

from home to home. Stay in one place, eating and drinking what they provide. Don’t hesitate to accept hospitality,

because those who work deserve their pay.

 8 “If you enter a town and it welcomes you, eat whatever is set before you. 9 Heal the sick, and tell them, ‘The

Kingdom of God is near you now.’

Luke 10:4-9

4 Don’t take any money with you, nor a traveler’s bag, nor an extra pair of sandals. And don’t stop to

greet anyone on the road.  

Make time for people!

Luke 10:4-9

7 Don’t move around from home to home. Stay in one place, eating and drinking what they provide. Don’t hesitate to accept hospitality, because those

who work deserve their pay.

 

Use your current situation!

Luke 10:4-9

 8 “If you enter a town and it welcomes you, eat whatever is set before you. 9 Heal the sick, and tell

them, ‘The Kingdom of God is near you now.’

Identify with people at the table/break down the status quo.

 36 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat. 37 When a certain immoral woman from that city heard he was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. 38 Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping. Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. Then she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them.  39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching him. She’s a sinner!”

Luke 7

14 As Jesus walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Levi got up and followed him.  15 Later, Levi invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. 16 But when the teachers of religious law who were Pharisees saw him eating with tax collectors and other sinners, they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat with such scum?” 17 When Jesus heard this, he told them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”

Mark 2:13-17Mark 2:13-17

 6 While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, 7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.     8 When the disciples saw this, they were indignant.

Matthew 26:6

  1 The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him 3 and said, "You went into the house of the uncircumcised and ate with them."

Early Church Struggled

Acts 11:1-3

Some Questions1. How have you/we made time for the table?

2. Are you using your current situation/stuff or are you waiting for the next thing?

3. Are we breaking down the status Quo or identifying with people at our table?