Emphasis Preaching Journal

It is easy for us to look at this parable of Jesus and say that we would never sit in the seat of honor until we were asked. We would think of that as presumptuous --even arrogant! We would sit at the end of the table and if the host wanted us to sit in a place of greater honor, we would gladly accept the invitation. But we would not just go and sit in that place of honor without being invited!

A fair enough observation. But —

--Isn't a lot of jockeying for position around the boss in an office something like that?