notorious

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!



Do any "notorious sinners" ever want to hang with us?

Is there just so much of the Holy Spirit in us that people who fit into that catagory want to be around us?

Do we ever want to hang with "notorious sinners"?

Or are we too afraid of what our "Christian friends" might think if they saw us with such questionable people - you know: birds of a feather...?

Or are we just so smug & arrogant, & self-righteous too, that we're too holy to hang with such low life's?


I wonder where you & I would be if those people who influenced us to follow Jesus had not wanted to hang with us when we were "notorious sinners"?