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This week BibleWorm reads Matthew 22:1-14, a parable of a wedding banquet that a king plans for his son … but it doesn’t go quite as expected. We love thinking about the combination of obligation and joy and grandeur and intimacy baked into this story. We REALLY loved the idea of a last minute invitation to a mixed multitude of seemingly random people to come witness these nuptials when the first group of invitees didn’t quite work out. And I’ll be honest, we struggled with how to make sense of the fact that one person from the latter group is found unprepared. How could he have been prepared when there was no time between the invitation and the party! Moving from the register of the story into what we think it is trying to teach about the kingdom being described, maybe that’s exactly the question this text wants us to sit with– if there’s not going to be time later, how can humans best prepare, each of us, right now?
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This week BibleWorm reads Matthew 22:1-14, a parable of a wedding banquet that a king plans for his son … but it doesn’t go quite as expected. We love thinking about the combination of obligation and joy and grandeur and intimacy baked into this story. We REALLY loved the idea of a last minute invitation to a mixed multitude of seemingly random people to come witness these nuptials when the first group of invitees didn’t quite work out. And I’ll be honest, we struggled with how to make sense of the fact that one person from the latter group is found unprepared. How could he have been prepared when there was no time between the invitation and the party! Moving from the register of the story into what we think it is trying to teach about the kingdom being described, maybe that’s exactly the question this text wants us to sit with– if there’s not going to be time later, how can humans best prepare, each of us, right now?

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