Monday, November 20, 2006

Perspective

In Luke 5, we read this interesting account in Jesus' ministry:

Luke 5:27-32
27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. "Follow me," Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. 30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and 'sinners'?" 31 Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." (NIV)






We preachers love to hang out with the saved. Jesus didn't. He went to where the sinners were. Maybe that's why He was so good at reaching the lost.

I'm going to Starbucks...gonna grab a Peppermint Mocha, and I'm going to work on Sunday's message there. Maybe I'll get some needed perspective...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm trying to come up with something pithy - but it's not working. I thought about paraphrasing the passage using a starbuck's reference, but I can't do it. I'll have to work on it and get back to you.

Anonymous said...

I thought you quit caffeine - you know

Brett Probert said...

ah, but it comes in decaf! God is good! (and, occasionally, I do sneak caffeine. Don't tell anyone...I'm trying to keep it a big secret!!!)