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When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers and sisters or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.
Luke 14:12-14
Watching a dinner party built on reciprocity, Jesus told the host to invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind, precisely because they cannot repay. He also warned sternly against despising the little ones, whose angels see the Father's face.
Jesus targets the hidden economics of our kindness, the way we invest hospitality where it earns a return. Love that only flows toward useful people is trade, not love. The repayment for the other kind comes at the resurrection of the just, which is to say, it is the only kind that lasts.
Plan one act of generosity this month for someone with zero capacity to repay, advance, or even publicly thank you. That is the guest list Jesus keeps.