You see, in a fallen world, we are all homeless beggars. As Keller explains, each one of us—whether we are materially rich or poor—is longing, like the Prodigal Son, to come home to a feast, a banquet in which all our physical needs are fully satisfied and all our relationships are completely restored, a banquet in which we experience all that it means to be human for the first time. We beggars can all come home to that wonderful feast, not through material resources or superior technology—the gods of modernism—but by embracing “Colossians 1 Jesus,” the Master of the only banquet that can
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