A friend of mine likes to play a party game that goes like this:
When people arrive at the party someone tapes a sign on their back that says either ‘King, Queen or Servant.’
As people mingle they interact with others according to the role written on their backs. The kings and queens are pampered and given prompt attention. The slaves are hardly noticed, disrespected and talked around. It doesn’t take long for people to guess who they are by the way others are treating them.
When the game’s finished my friend asks her guests what it felt like to be treated like royalty and like servants. She also asks what it felt like to treat others according to these roles. She then asks her guests to ponder what life would be like if everyone in their neighborhood treated everyone else as if the sign on their backs betrayed their secret identities as ‘King or Queen.’
What would it be like to live in a place where everyone treated everyone else like royalty?
This Sunday is known as Christ the King Sunday and presents the challenge for us not only to reassert Christ’s lordship in our lives, but also to strengthen our own resolve to treat others like royalty. When Jesus said, whatsoever you do to one of the least of His family, you do to Him – why shouldn’t we be treating others like royalty?
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Reading
The Pastor – Eugene Peterson
Self Abandonment to Divine Providence - Jean-Pierre de CaussadeJesus: A Revolutionary Biography – John Dominic Crossan
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