“When the scribes of the Pharisee party saw Him eating with sinners (prostitutes and publicans,) they said to His disciples, “Why does He eat with publicans and sinners?” When Jesus heard this, He said to them, “It is not the healthy who needs the doctor, but the sick. I did not come to call the virtuous, but sinners” (Mk. 2:15-17).
When we try to imitate Christ in any serious way, we soon discover how to expect the unexpected from ourselves. Here is one such example from author Tony Campolo, Professor of Sociology at Eastern College in Pennsylvania. He does a lot of public speaking and he travels to all kinds of places. This is his story of what happened on a trip to Honolulu:
“If you live on the East Coast and travel to Hawaii by air, you know that there is a time difference that makes three o’clock in the morning feel like it’s nine. Whenever I go to our fiftieth state I find…
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