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• unconventional approach to picking players for
team
• mercy as Jesus chooses a “roster of misfits”
• cost of following miracle-working Messiah great
• tempted to look past or down on those society
detests
• Jesus saw Matthew - potential gospel-writer, not
just tax-gatherer
• to follow, Matthew had to leave lucrative
profession behind
• no going back for Elisha when called by Elijah
• feasting with friends: Jesus wants your home for
His pulpit
• Pharisees (“separated ones”) wouldn’t associate
with low-lifes
• are we too “respectable” to become available to /
friends with “rejects”?
• church a hospital for sinners, field hospital
after battle
• no one so healthy spiritually as to not need Great
Physician’s care
• mercy turns God’s crank more than burnt offerings
• Paul “worst of sinners” yet shown mercy as an
example for others
• Jesus came into world to save/call sinners, not
those trusting self-righteousness
• notable success of Christian rapper Lecrae
getting attention
• reconstruct perspective: emptiness of
drugs-sex-money-fame
• music a tool helping others come to know God