Cheekiness works

As some of you may well know, I'm hosting a barbecue on Sunday but I hadn't heard back from quite everybody I invited so I sent round a gentle (ok maybe not that gentle!) reminder with a cheeky twist.

We had the story of the great banquet from Luke's Gospel as the second reading last Sunday evening:

He said also to the one who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

One of the dinner guests, on hearing this, said to him, "Blessed is anyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!" Then Jesus said to him, "Someone gave a great dinner and invited many. At the time for the dinner he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, "Come; for everything is ready now.' But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, "I have bought a piece of land, and I must go out and see it; please accept my regrets.' Another said, "I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please accept my regrets.' Another said, "I have just been married, and therefore I cannot come.' So the slave returned and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his slave, "Go out at once into the streets and lanes of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.' And the slave said, "Sir, what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.' Then the master said to the slave, "Go out into the roads and lanes, and compel people to come in, so that my house may be filled. For I tell you, none of those who were invited will taste my dinner.' "

So I used it as a model for my subtle "nudge":

As some of you may have noticed the Gospel reading set for last Sunday evening was the parable of the great banquet... (Luke 14.12-24)

Can you let me know whether

a) you are coming to the barbecue on Sunday
or
b) you havebought a piece of land, and must go out and see it
or
c) you have bought five yoke of oxen, and are going to try them out
or
d) you have just been married, and therefore cannot come

;oP

Well it solicited six additional responses so it obviously worked!

Was it too cheeky?