We are continuing our series on Redeeming Humanity, looking at how God redeems us through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. This week we were looking at how easy it is to exclude people and look to keep everything safe but how Jesus talks of the overwhelming grace and generosity of God. There was an expectation in 1st Century Judaism (as is shared in Christianity) that there would be a great feast at the end of time where the saviour of the world, the Messiah, would be its host. This came from a passage in Isaiah 25 describing this feast. By Jesus’ time the feast had been re-defined to exclude the gentiles that Isaiah talked of being welcomed. Jesus tells the parable to point out that God’s grace was so much bigger than people wanted to believe. Will based the talk on Luke 14: 15-24