In a world where Jesus taught us that our hospitality and our welcome should both be welcome and beyond what you might know or receive anywhere else, the honored guests at the meal are not your pastors but the people of God who gather to worship and receive the presence of Jesus in bread and wine. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Our place in the Kingdom of God is no more important than our place at the table today. Jesus asks us to believe that our behavior at the table matters — because it does.