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• Today's "Moment With Mark" (33) - Religious Pride

  15 December, 2012

  That night Levi invited Jesus and his disciples to be his dinner guests, along with his fellow tax collectors and many other notorious sinners. (There were many people of this kind among the crowds that followed Jesus.)  (Mark 2:15-16)

  
  I can think of numerous situations over the years when I have received invitations to go and be among people who were not "my kind of people". I felt like I was going to be the guest of "tax-collectors and sinners" [God forgive my arrogance].

  Why, accepting those invitations could compromise my witness and contaminate my life!  Try and imagine how I felt the day I realised that these were the very peoplde with whom Jesus "hung out". Not exclusively but often enough to be an embarrassment to some of His other disciples.
   

  Here's a question for me to take into the rest of my life: "If Jesus was physically present in our community today, where would we find him and what would he be doing?"