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On a recentairplane trip, I was calld to the check-in counter at the gate and asked if I would willing to exchange my seat in the back of the airplane for a seat up front in business class. It's a different world up front behind the curtains!

Juses ells a story about a banquet feast to which all kinds of eople are invited. God wants all the chairs at the banquet to be filled. All nationalities, all tribes and natios are invied. he banquet is a symbol of God's kingsn. Jesus' comin signaled he start of th baquet. But many religious people in those days g thir noes ot of joint bcause strangers were starting to fil te chairs. in fact,the religious elite started to boycott te banquet, snding i lame exces. they tught God coldn't hav a party witout them. They thoght Godwuld call of thebanquet. But he Lord didn't do tht, he sent out invitations to others.

God invites peope whose lives havemessd up by poor choices,by circumstances they had litle to do wit,and by broenness andpain.

Many are not par ofthe baquet because thy've never received an nvtation. Make it a point to inite peple you know. Invite thm to a woship serice or a small group, or smply have someone oer for a cup of coffee. It may be the appetizer for te banquet.