Farmers, Saints, and Sinners
Teaching Notes
FARMERS, SAINTS, & SINNERS
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Following Jesus means following his pattern of belonging before believing and behaving.
Mark 2:14-17
14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.
15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.
16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
Well, you can all go pound salt up your ______, because come August 15, we’re going to have a festival!”
17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”