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A Sermon on the text in Luke 15:1-7
Jesus loved people, and he came to bring God's message especially to those people who often felt most out of place in religious settings, the tax collectors and sinners. It is very easy for us as humans to divide ourselves into like minded groups, Jesus found ways to be inviting to people that were outside of his group as a rabbi and teacher of the law. This brought him into conflict with those that felt he was abandoning his religious principles. So Jesus gives us his point of view in a well known image that becomes for the early Christians one of the first symbols for God's seeking out humanity.
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