⁹ As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. ¹⁰ While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. ¹¹ When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” ¹² On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.”
Matthew 9:9-12

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’
Luke 7:34

⁵ When Jesus got there, he looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, hurry down! I want to stay with you today.” ⁶ Zacchaeus hurried down and gladly welcomed Jesus. ⁷ Everyone who saw this started grumbling, “This man Zacchaeus is a sinner! And Jesus is going home to eat with him.”
Luke 19:5-7

“For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost.”
Luke 19:10

“In Luke’s gospel Jesus was either going to a meal, at a meal or coming from a meal.” —Robert Charis

What happens when we eat together?

• The table invites us to

ground.

Yes, I try to find common ground with everyone, doing everything I can to save some.
1 Corinthians 9:22b

“Dining together can radically reduce our perceptions of inequality, and it allows us to view people of different races, genders, and socioeconomic backgrounds as more equal than we would in other social situations. In other words, our differences are less pronounced at the dinner table.” —Eating Together, Alice Julier

“There is something about the dinner table that helps truth go down better.” —Pastor Rich Wilkerson, VOUS Church

• Let your

become His

Reveal Answer

.

Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.
Hebrews 13:2

Always be eager to practice hospitality.
Romans 12:13b

Confront the Challenges

• I don’t like having people in my home.

• I don’t know what to say.

• I don’t have time.

Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28