<html><body><br>second part<br><br><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">          </span>“How

often have you bought something you felt wasn’t worth the money?</span>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:

normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span>“What

if you could set the price?</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:

normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span>“What

factors would influence your number?</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:

normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span>“For

years, behavioral scientists have studied such questions.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:

normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span>“They

often look at a model called <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/us/21free.html" target="_blank">P.W.Y.W.

(Pay-what-you-want, that is.)</a> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:

normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span>“The

idea may seem like a consumer’s giddiest fantasy. But a real-life extreme version

of the experiment unfolding at a restaurant in Montclair, N.J., is affirming

the researchers’ predictions. It has been triggering a panoply of reactions —

including anxiety, delight, incredulity, guilt and, yes, rampant opportunism. …</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:

normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span>“‘The

majority of people want to take advantage of the offer, but also recognize that

it feels weird,’ said <a href="https://carlsonschool.umn.edu/faculty/kathleen-vohs" target="_blank">Kathleen

D. Vohs</a>, a professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota who writes

about the <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17110581" target="_blank" title="Science article abstract.">psychology of money</a>. ‘So they limit what

they order, do a good job of valuing it, and then walk back from what it’s

worth.’” <sup>2</sup></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:

normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span>Yes,

there <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u>ARE</u></b> people who take

advantage of this generosity, people could easily afford to be fair, if not far

better. There are always folk like that – who listened to Jesus, ate with Him,

got excited about His conversations about living a refocused life, but balked at

the thought of making dramatic changes and an offering of their lives for the

spread of the Gospel, the Good News about what life <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:

normal"><u>CAN</u></b> be like when people don’t have to worry about how they

could manage their finances, or their health care, or their education.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:

normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span>But

then, thank God, there are others, like “another family (who) left a thank-you

note with their modest amount. ‘The food and service was worth way more than we

were able to leave.’ It continued, ‘As a kid in college and a mother doing

inconsistent freelance, without the deal we wouldn’t have gotten the chance to

come.’”</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:

normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span>This

Jesus-like chef gave that mother and child something they may not forget for a

long time, if ever. He gave them a glimpse of what it means when people don’t

worry about having their name stuck on a college gate, or a church pew, or a

city park – people who know that the goal of a life being lived well is to make

sure that everyone is given the invitation and opportunity to share.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:

normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span>“The

other night (one diner) was in a swivet as she anticipated that post-dessert

moment of truth. She’d heard stories about the shortchangers.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:

normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span>“‘I

want to show the chef that I love his food and I appreciate what he’s doing,’

(she) said. ‘And I worry about the kitchen staff! The waiters! I’m so anxious!’”</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:

normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span>Now

<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u>THERE’S</u></b> someone who gets what

life us about – what <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u>ETERNAL</u></b>

life is about!</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:

normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span>Solomon

was like that chef! He had skills. He knew he could do wonderful things if

given half a chance and was blessed by God to use his gifts wisely. He raised

this Temple that must have been amazing to see, filled as it was with

treasures, not out of pomposity or arrogance, but as an attempt to imply that

nothing but the best is good enough for God’s dwelling place. But the king

didn’t say, “See what I’ve done for you, God.” Solomon, already showing signs

of the maturity and wisdom for which he’d asked, interceded with God for the

foreigners who’d appear in Jerusalem, who might come near the Temple. “Hear

that person’s prayer, and answer it,” he pleaded with God. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:

.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The stranger, the weak person, the

person at her or his wit’s end, the one who is starving, who has no home, who

could never hope to pay what life cost – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u>SHE</u></b>

or <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u>HE</u></b> was precisely the one

whom Solomon had come to understand <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u>MUST</u></b>

be given hospitality; she or he was precisely the one to whom Jesus said, again

and again, that each must eat His flesh and drink His blood – become one with

Him.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:

.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">And now this joyful message has been

passed to us, who’ve had our hunger and thirst satisfied at God’s altar. Now

it’s our turn, as God’s holy dwelling place, to minister in the world. We must

ask ourselves, what is Jesus worth to us. Not that we can pay what Jesus is

really worth. But then, all the Jesus wants is that we keep His company, that

we listen and learn, that we follow His example.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:

.5in;line-height:normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:

"Times New Roman"">THAT</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:

"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> is how we

repay God for the love of Jesus. So, come, then, eat, drink – and share.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:

.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:

normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NOTES:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:

normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:

normal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;

font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;

font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:

EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[1]</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">           </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">“Paul

Smith’s College Will Get $20 Million, if It Changes Its Name”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  <span class="byline">By <span class="byline-author">KRISTIN HUSSEY AUG. 17,

2015<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b><a href="http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACPLKh239P3pgSUm6WmiIEVhWtNL6rtHQI9vhucq+Seal/G11kFaX0AW9SkJDlzpknkn2riy4Y6yo15di8KeuhfwQ4Xzc+oLhB5S9MoITtgvcEBXzBn28U4mJio7tM+Y1sh/48+NDsRAD7OneTLDEye33tlh+Pro2kQ2akLTddt2H2mnxKtytooJGVypokOY2BtSbk0PhUt8Gd60LMy7ONI8=&campaign_id=61&instance_id=61762&segment_id=76143&user_id=13776d46e58cd1c84bbfacad680c03b7&regi_id=63205127">http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACPLKh239P3pgSUm6WmiIEVhWtNL6rtHQI9vhucq+Seal/G11kFaX0AW9SkJDlzpknkn2riy4Y6yo15di8KeuhfwQ4Xzc+oLhB5S9MoITtgvcEBXzBn28U4mJio7tM+Y1sh/48+NDsRAD7OneTLDEye33tlh+Pro2kQ2akLTddt2H2mnxKtytooJGVypokOY2BtSbk0PhUt8Gd60LMy7ONI8=&campaign_id=61&instance_id=61762&segment_id=76143&user_id=13776d46e58cd1c84bbfacad680c03b7&regi_id=63205127</a></span></p>

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normal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;

font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;

font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <span style="mso-tab-count:1">          </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">“</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:

normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/category/on-your-mind/?module=BlogCategory&version=Blog%20Post&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Header"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Mind</span></a>:

<span style="mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">What Would You

Pay for This Meal?”<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:

"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:

18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;

font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";

mso-bidi-font-style:italic">By <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/author/jan-hoffman/" title="More Posts by Jan Hoffman"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:

none;text-underline:none">Jan Hoffman </span></a></span><span style="font-size:

10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">August

17, 2015 2:28 pm August 17, 2015 2:28 pm </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;

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