Power

A friend recently helped me see an interesting connection,  I was telling her about the Bromley by Bow Centre in East London (1).  This once declining church was given a radical face lift by it's Methodist minister, Andrew Morton.  It became an arts centre for artists with attitude.  The staff then went out to the local community and instead of asking them what it could do for them, asked them to help them with their project.  These were people who might find this concept quite confusing at first, because they were supposed to be the clients

My friend said that's like Jesus going to the well, and asking the Samaritan woman for water (2),

I was reminded of how Jesus handles power.  Simon the pharisee thought he was quite radical inviting Jesus to his house (3), But he treated Jesus in a lowly manner, and Jesus pointed this out to him.  Zacchaeus (4) thought Jesus was amazing, he literately looked up to him,  Jesus treated him as an equal, and visited his house and shared his food.
1 www.bbbc.org.uk/
2 John 4. 1-42
3 Luke 7. 36-49
4 Luke 18, 1-10