Teaching With Food

[470 words] Jesus is the master teacher. One reason was His masterful use of stories. He could take the relatable events and situations and impart heavenly truths through them. Preachers joke that they can re-preach their sermons as long as they change the illustrations. We sometimes remember the “story” longer than the lesson. The best illustrations contain the lesson. Jesus does that in Luke 14, centering His thoughts on food or at least dinner parties. Notice three things He teaches through this commonly understood analogy. Develop a Taste for Humble Pie (7-11). Jesus was watching a pitiful, prideful act among His disciples. They were trying to pick out places of honor, apparently feeling pretty self-important and entitled. Jesus urged the very opposite approach to honor and recognition. He says it is better to take the lowest seat and to be asked to come up higher than to take a seat of honor…