Belonging Isn't Everything

Mark Estepp - 3/6/2022

Luke 5:27-32
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.”

Belonging Isn’t Everything

There is a secular invitation to belong at the booth.

There is a religious invitation to belong if you meet all of the benchmarks.

Jesus’ invitation to belong is for the broken.

Belonging isn’t everything - Jesus also makes us better.

Those who belong to Jesus have banquets for others.