"I have often wondered about this, and what comes to my mind over and over is the parable of the marriage feast (Matthew 22:1-14). When the invited guests did not show, the master told his servants, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor, and the cripples, and the blind, and the lame' (Luke 14:21). When even that did not suffice, the servants were sent out once more, this time to the highways and hedges, with the order, 'Make them come in, so that my house may be filled.'
I believe that this is what we are seeing take place today. The 'invited guests' at the table of the Lord, that is the "born Christians," the righteous, the law-abiding members of society, have too often proved themselves unworthy. They have 'gone to Church.' but they have not really partaken of the banquet provided by the King. This is why the Church, instead of being a living Body and a Challenging witness, so often appears as an ineffectual pious custom."
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