How would you react if you saw your pastor at a local restaurant eating and laughing with known drug dealers or gang members? He wasn’t preaching to them, wasn’t having a healing service, just having a meal with them. Would this bother you? Jesus was criticized for being friends of sinners. He ate with them at their house. He knew them by name. He even called Matthew, a sinner to...
Jesus, A Friend of Sinners
Sinners, tax collectors, prostitutes and Jesus were having a party. It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke but it was actually how Jesus chose to spend His time on earth, surrounded by sinners. He was known as a friend of sinners. Jesus knew His mission. He came to seek and save that which was lost. He came to heal the sick and make righteous the sinner. The way...