Everyone likes to get the good part, right? We will take everything from a free upgrade to first class to the choices bit of the Sunday roast.

But what if we have been mistaken about what the good part is?!

What if our desire has been so shaped by what everyone else around us is desiring, that we have never worked out for ourselves what is genuinely good?

Jesus’ encounter with Martha and Mary as a guest in their home reveals how easily we can adopt the assumptions of our culture and miss out on the really good part.