Sitting with sinners

 Sitting with sinners

Matthews Gospel records,

"While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" came and ate with him and his disciples.  

When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners'?" 

On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.  

But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." Matthew 9:10-13.

Question; If you consider yourself a Christian do you sit with non-Christians and share your faith?

Are you worried what other Christians will think about you if you associate with non-Christians or those of other faiths and lifestyles?

You shouldn’t. Jesus never worried. He sat with what the pharisees called tax collectors and sinners. He also sat with and talked to people who were shunned by the society He lived in. He spoke to a Samaritan woman, when Jews didn’t speak to Samaritans.

Jesus made it clear he was on this earth to reach the sinners of this earth. Speaking of Himself he said,

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:16,17.

So if you consider yourself a Christian are you continuing the work of Jesus by speaking to all those around you not just Christians?

Please think about it.