Jesus: An Emerging Portrait

Friend of Sinners

Speaker: Greg Holder

Service Date: March 10, 2024

Friend of Sinners

Read: Matthew 9:9-11, Luke 18:35-43, 19:1-10

Reflect:

1. What is a place you can't go back to?  

2. What do you make of Jesus embracing the title, "friend of sinners?"

3. Have you ever been given the impression that you're not important enough for Jesus' time? Have you found yourself thinking that you need to clean yourself up first?

4. Has the image of Jesus been distorted for you before?  How so?

5. Read Luke 19:1-10. What did you notice? What do you have questions about?

6. Have you ever been on the outside looking in?  Have you ever experienced being invited in? 

Do: 

Would you (and your group) want to serve at Easter?  Here is the link to sign up: https://thecrossing.church/ServeEaster

Recovery begins on March 26th, as well as our next Grieving With Hope class (in Grant's Trail).



"...Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Matthew 9:13 (NIV)