THE GOSPEL OF LUKE: - Vital Christianity

981. We must not be discouraged by peoples’ excuses. Sometimes we talk with peoplewho may put up all kinds of smokescreens why they “can’t” accept our invitation, but this shouldnot dissuade us from continuing to invite people.2. Invite other people. Instead of getting frustrated and deciding not to ask anyone again,we need to be patient and ask other people, possibly people who we hadn’t thought of before.3. We are charged by the Master to go out and bring people to the banquet. We havebeen given a commission—The Great Commission—to invite people into communion withChrist and become His disciples.NOTEn. p.1Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (New York: Simon & Shuster, 1995),