As we start to look at doing a few things and doing them well, who is on our "guest list"? Do we only invite people who are like us, who can fit in, who can serve on a committee or tithe? A healthy church is not a country club for saints; it's a hospital for sinners. It's a family that actively seeks out the overlooked, the broken, the messy, and the new—not as projects, people who are created in God’s image and have a place of honour. We are called to be a community of inviters, not exclusives. You can only truly take the lowest seat (Luke 14:10) if you know you are poor in spirit (Matt 5:3). When you understand your acceptance by God is a gift of grace, you stop trying to prove your worthiness to everyone else. You are free to take the low seat.You can only truly welcome the outcast (Luke 14:13) if you know you were once an outcast. When you know God welcomed you in your brokenness, you lose all condescension. You see the marginalized not as "them," but as "us." We are all beggars who have found the bread of life.Let our church be a place where no one fights for the spotlight because we're all amazed we're in the light of Christ at all.A place where the most important people aren't the ones up front, but the ones in the back praying, the ones in the kitchen cleaning, the ones welcoming the newcomer.A place where the guest list is as wide as the arms of Christ on the cross—open to everyone, especially those who have nothing to offer but their need.Maybe you've never taken that lowest seat before God. Maybe you've been trying to earn your place. Today, Jesus invites you to rest. To admit your spiritual poverty and receive the rich grace of God. The kingdom of heaven is yours.

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