Hosea 5:15 - 6:6 (links validated 5/21/26a)

An Episcopal priest who likes to have fun, and also likes to do personal evangelism witnessing, had a special tee shirt designed. The message on the tee shirt was in Greek. It was a quote from one of the Gospels. In English, it said, “he eats and drinks with sinners.” The priest would wear the tee shirt into bars. Inevitably, he would be asked what the language was and what it meant. It usually provoked the question, “Who eats and drinks with sinners?” The answer, of course, was “Jesus.” This led to conversations. One of the standard response lines was, “Well, if Jesus wants to eat and drink with sinners, he has come to the right place.” But we really don’t have to go to bars to find a crowd of sinners. Most of the people we see at church pass muster with Jesus...