My kids did this thing when they were smaller, they still do it a little bit now, but especially when they were smaller.

They all wanted the middle seat in the back of the truck when we would go anywhere as a family.

And there are five of us, three kids.

And so they would sandbag or rush to try to make sure that they just sort of casually timed it so that they would get the middle seat.

Then of course I grew weary of this game as the dad but eventually I remember asking

why does this even matter? It's such a debate, kind of who cares? And they all

said the same thing. They knew in their little world it matters because

whoever is in the middle gets access to mom and dad gets access to both

siblings might even get access to the radio is just the sweet spot that's where you

want to be and when I thought about it in their kid backseat micro economy.

Like, huh?

Yeah, okay, I understand.

There's some stakes there.

I get it now.

Likewise, when we think about the debate that is born out of Jesus' words in Matthew 26 and exactly

what he means here with phrases like Take and Eat, this is my body or this is my blood of the

covenant and we listen to other people and find out that some folks read that very

literally that there's an actual transformation that they understand to occur there

where the elements of communion though they are not changed, they are changed at some level of the truest realist substance,

or whether you're talking to someone who reads that and says, no, based on the rest of the New Testament, that is clearly metaphor.

Either way, I get out somebody either in the church

or outside of Christianity altogether could look at that

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