Feb. 15

February 15, 2008

Eating and Drinking with Sinners

Read  Mark 2:13-22

Reflect
It’s politician season again. Men and women line up to jockey allegiances and positions to switch the top chairs of authority in our countries’ leadership. A good campaign in our kingdom is about power, influence, wealth, and loads of lofty promises to fix, change, and overhaul. Kingdom expectations haven’t changed much over the centuries. Every body loves the powerful Jesus who drives out demons. They can’t get enough of the healing Jesus who proves capable of bringing new and real change. But dining with tax collectors and sinners is a moral campaign train wreck, unless His kingdom is truly new and different.

“Why is he eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?” Read the rest of this entry »


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