Luke 5:27 Later, as Jesus left the town, he saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at his tax collector's booth. "Follow me and be my disciple," Jesus said to him. 28 So Levi got up, left everything, and followed him.
29 Later, Levi held a banquet in his home with Jesus as the guest of honor. Many of Levi's fellow tax collectors and other guests (dan note: other gospels call them "notorious sinners" - wonder what you had to do back them to be a "notorious sinner?!) also ate with them. 30 But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus' disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with such scum?"
31 Jesus answered them, "Healthy people don't need a doctor—sick people do. 32 I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent."
Recently, I was talking with my son, Kevin, who's the youth pastor at Christ Chapel Warner Robins. He mentioned this event in Jesus' life & posed an interesting question I've thought about since...
If Jesus was here now, who would He hang out with?
And if we're Christians (i.e. little Christ's), then who should be hang out with?
Think about that one today...
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