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🚌 The Setup: The Pyramid We Live In

Most of the world operates like a pyramid. A few people at the top hold most of the wealth and power. The majority do the labor and carry the weight, but receive the least reward.

The 80/20 Rule (Pareto Principle) suggests that 20% of people shape outcomes for the other 80%. Those at the top often stay there — not because they’re the smartest or strongest, but because the system is built for them.

💡 We’re told they earned it. But often, they were just born there.


📊 A Look at Inequality

In the U.S., the top 1% hold more wealth than the bottom 90% combined.
Globally, the richest 10% own 76% of the world’s wealth. The bottom 50% own just 2%.

If you make $40,000 a year, you’re in the top 3% of earners globally.


🧠 The Myth of Merit
We often believe those at the top worked the hardest or were the smartest. But in truth, many are just lucky — born into the right time, place, or family.

Strength is often defined by those already in power.

🫱🏽‍🫲🏿 The World’s Way vs. The Kingdom Way

The world rewards productivity, muscle, influence, and appearance.

The Kingdom of God rewards humility, availability, hunger for joy, and those willing to say yes.

🍽️ Jesus at a Dinner Party — Luke 14:1–24

Jesus attends a banquet full of powerful insiders. He notices how everyone is scrambling for status and says to the host:

“Don’t invite the rich or important. Invite the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.” (v.13)

Why? Because those at the top repay with more power. The poor can’t — but God will.

🗣️ The Parable of the Great Feast

Jesus tells of a great banquet.
The host fills his table not with the rich, but with the poor, the sick, the outsiders — even those hiding behind hedges.
They come hungry — not just for food, but for joy, belonging, and dignity.

The original guests never came:
Land. Business. Marriage.
Too busy. Too comfortable. Too distracted.
Because when you're at the top, you rarely feel desperate for someone else’s table.

That’s why Jesus says: Don’t start there.

🔁 Kingdom Inversion
Luke 14:11 — “All who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

In this Kingdom, the last become first. And the party begins when the forgotten show up.

🔄 Jesus Flips the 80/20
Instead of the 20% at the top shaping outcomes, Jesus starts with the overlooked 80% — the sick, the poor, the pushed aside — and builds the movement from the margins in.

The joy of inclusion, dignity, and empowerment builds momentum upward.

✝️ This is the Kingdom of God
Not a pyramid we climb,
but a people who kneel low enough
to lift each other higher. 🙌🏽