Emphasis Preaching Journal

Humans seem compelled to create "out-groups." It's not enough to be part of a group. We then define others as, well, "others." Religions do it, too. Jesus, however, actively and habitually seeks out-group people. He spends time with lepers, the ritually unclean, mentally and physically ill, tax collectors, demon possessed, women, children, non-Jews, and the broadest out-group dubbed, generally, "sinners." He eats with them!