Read Matthew 22:1-14 with your family.

In our story today Jesus continues to use parables to tell the leaders in the temple that they are not doing a good job of representing God to the people. This time Jesus compares God to a King who wants to hold a special wedding feast for his son (meaning Jesus), and invites all the power people who like to think they are important. But all of those people say ‘no’ to the invitation and even kill the messengers.

Jesus tells the Temple leaders that after that rejection, the King, or God, calls ordinary people who are not rich or powerful, and they are the ones who will get to enjoy what the King/God has given to our world.

Sometimes in the church when people think they are important, and other people treat them as important, they start to think they are better than others. This story reminds those people that God calls everyone. But in order to be part of God’s world, you also have to do the work and live the way God calls us to live.

It’s not good enough to say we are Christian, we have to mean it with the way we behave and treat others..