Dinner with Jesus - Everyone is Welcome
The the larger story of that last supper, where Jesus’ self-giving love is contrasted with a whole series of failures on the part of the disciples. Jesus shares the dinner, and Himself, with them anyway, because He loves them so much. Everyone is welcome at His table. Even us.
Outline
- Another dinner with Jesus
- Jesus' last dinner with the disciples
- Passover and preparatios
- The supper begins
- The disciples fight and Jesus teaches them a lesson
- The food is passed around, with some bad news
- There is more bad news
- Still, Jesus shres that special supper
- They finish and leave for Gethsemane
- Two main features stand out
- First, Jesus can hardly wait to share this dinner with his friends
- All Jesus' guests at this supper are miserable failures
- How does this help us prepare for Easter?
- Jesus offers us something we need.
- This is something we don't deserve
- But Jesus did it anyway, because He loves us