"At the Pharisee's House": Jesus' Invitation to His New Society—Part A (Luke 14)

What if Jesus’ most controversial dinner party wasn’t just about etiquette—but about dismantling the entire social order?

In this episode of You Thought You Knew Jesus, Dr Tyson Putthoff takes us inside Luke 14—where Jesus attends a high-profile banquet, exposes the honor game of the elite, and delivers a vision for an entirely new kind of society.

But here’s the twist: Jesus isn’t just offering advice on humility or kindness. He’s calling out a broken system built on status, power, exclusion, and fear—and announcing the arrival of God’s alternative: a society of grace, radical inclusion, and upside-down values. He redefines who belongs at the table—and reveals that the people the world pushes out are the very ones God moves to the center.

This episode is Part A of a two-part study of Luke 14. Here in Part A, we explore the social, cultural, and political structures of Jesus’ world—honor and shame, patronage, meals as status games, and the geography of ancient cities. These essential insights lay the groundwork for Part B, where we’ll walk through the Luke 14 banquet account verse by verse and uncover Jesus’ radical social vision in real time.

If you’ve ever felt like you don’t measure up, like you’re too far gone, too different, or not churchy enough to be included—this episode is for you. Jesus isn’t just challenging the system. He’s flipping it, and he’s saving you a seat at the table.

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