Be open-minded.
Luke 4:14-30
Gods ways are not your ways. Don’t be so sure about God’s response to situations. You may be wrong.
Isaiah 61 which Jesus read was a text of judgment, passed down generationally, steeped in their culture. Yet the revelation of the Messiah turned it upside down into a text of mercy.
Mercy offends when you are banking on judgment. They knew what Jesus was aiming at and they wanted rid of such mercy.
Be open-minded. Think less of yourself. Do not let your Christian community become a narrow minded cliquish community.
They thought the Messianic age would be a great moment for them. It would be all about them. Jesus shifts the text from, “Here is what you will receive,” to “Here is what you are expected to give.”
Before you met Christ it was all about you. But now it is never about you, it is always about others.
Missions Paul 