Eating with Sinners
They had a problem with organized religion and organized religion seemed to have a problem with them.
They had a problem with organized religion and organized religion seemed to have a problem with them.
Why should we feel threatened by someone who wants to live in a decent house, get a good education, work to improve themselves, make more money, and get to go to a doctor when they are sick and not at death's door?
We have a place to be and it's not before an altar, it is in the world, in the city, with both the needy neighbor and the enemy.
Worry is pointless because it can't fill our needs; worry is foolish because the Creator of the universe loves us and knows what we need.
The old life was gone, put behind him and he met each new day with a smile, and a hope in what is unseen.
In order to be saved by the Law, a person would have to live a perfect life, not sinning once. How difficult would that be!
Growing up they heard their friends and others in the community make racially offensive comments about "those" people.
But what God is doing through us may, more often than not, be for the good of some other person who God also loves.
Peter's faith wavered when he realized what he was doing, and the confident, fearless fisherman began to flounder.
God will separate his obedient followers from pretenders and unbelievers, because the real evidence of our belief is the way we act and treat others.