[zencat]

Amen. Christ hung out with a tax collector and prostitute. Those who most have need of him and his message are liberals.

[Blessed]

>Amen. Christ hung out with a tax collector and prostitute. Those who most have need of him and his message are liberals.<

He did not say make them Church members and leaders in the church.There is a difference between associating with sinners and ministering to them verses offering them fellowship in the congregation of believers.

[Zechariah11]

An honest tax collector and a forner prostitute with positive volition towards God's grace and revelation.. And the LJC didn't "hang out" with anybody unless you think a teacher "hangs out" with his students in class.

I'm sorry but it is a bit irksome when people diminish the nobility of the Lord and make himout to be the hippie-dippie dude from Galilee.

[Winfield]

"Christ hung out with a tax collector and prostitute."

True, but He required that they "repent" of their sins.
He did not tolerate the prostitutes declaring "diversity or sexual orientation, etc." as excuses for their sinful activities.