Jesus and a Dinner Party – My last sermon at MRMBC

I’m a Youth Pastor at the Memorial Road Mennonite Brethren Church in Edmond, OK.  I don’t preach all that often – about 4 times a year, but I really enjoy preaching.  I preached my last sermon at MRMBC on Sunday, July 12. Well, my last sermon as the Youth Pastor there.    My wife and I will be moving to Durham, North Carolina in just a few weeks (more info on that here).

Anyway, I preached on a passage that’s been on my heart for a while – Luke 7:36-50.  It goes like this:

• Jesus is invited to a dinner party.
• The host (a Pharisee named Simon) is incredibly rude to Jesus.
• Somewhere along the way a “woman of sin” (probably a prostitute) shows up and starts washing Jesus’s feet with her tears, then pours a bunch of perfume on his feet.
• Simon doesn’t like the fact that a prostitute is pouring her perfume on his floor, so he starts complaining.
• Jesus doesn’t like that Simon is complaining, so he calls him out.
• Then Jesus proceeds to blow everybody’s mind talking about forgiveness and sin.

Basically, Jesus breaks every Middle-Eastern-AD-30 social rule in the book according to their culture and defends a prostitute in a room full of church leaders.  It’s a crazy story, and it’s implications should literally change our lives.

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