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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Drink with sinners -Mark 2

Mark2:17"and hearing this, Jesus said to them, it is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

It is good to seperate with the world when we were just converted. But after a while, it can become such a life style that all we hang out with are the "righteous" ones, we even forget there're still sinners around.
We stopped going to pubs, stopped going to unsaved friends' homes, stopped listening to pop music, stopped drinking(not even one drop), stopped smoking(can't even handle anyone near us smoking), stopped eating with them...We even try to put our kids in Christian schools so they get to grow up with righteous kids...
But gradually we take the light out of the darkness where it's needed the most!
It really takes guts to go back to those places, just to hang out with people, to eat and drink together... not to be influenced by them to sin again, but to bring light into the darkness, to let people see hope, and let God's love flow out to them.