who ya hangin' with

Luke 15:1 Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach. 2 This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people—even eating with them!

Considering the depth of the depravity of the world at the time of Jesus, I wonder what kind of person you had to be yo be a "notorious" sinner? Ya musta had to be quite a doozie of a sinner!

But the religious establishment didn't like that Jesus did that.

I wonder if we have the strength to hang out with some people today who might be viewed as "notorious sinners". Most of us who are Christ followers tend to hang with our fellow prissy & precious Christian friends.

I wonder what would happen if more of us would hang w/ people who are clearly not Christ followers, not as another notch on our belt of "people we've saved" but simply because they, like us, are beautiful & cherished children of our common Abba Father?

And I wonder if we'd be willing to hang with such people if our prissy Christian friends took exception to it?

Just a thought...