Friendship and Feasting
- Mark 2:13-22
- Steve Hart
- May 20, 2007
- Series: The Gospel of Mark
Are we as Christians called to be the morality police for our culture? How do we interact and relate with those outside the faith? In this passage, Jesus scandalizes the religious leaders by eating with and befriending sinners. This is the gospel, that God has come to us as sinners, offered friendship, offered a great feast, and it is this grace which leads to repentance. Therefore, as we allow the new wine of the gospel to explode our old systems, we'll become more joyful and less judgmental of those outside the faith.