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What was Jesus's favorite food?

JESUS' FAVORITE FOOD WAS FISH But there does seem to be a lot of fish in the New Testament accounts about His life. For one, He chose to call “fishermen” as His followers.

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Many of us read the Bible and like to think of the problematic religious leaders as, “The Others.” We prefer to think that if we lived back then, or if Jesus walked the earth today, we would side with Him over them. The reality, though, is that the kind of company Jesus kept would have made many of us really uncomfortable. So much so that we probably wouldn’t invite Him anytime soon to be a guest speaker at our Churches. Before you put up an argument, allow me to introduce you to the homies Jesus rolled with: TAX COLLECTORS: Let’s call this group what they really are, the Mafia! Aside of the fact that these guys were Jews who worked for an oppressive brutal regime [Romans] to tax their own people, they sometimes used abusive and tyrannical means to collect those funds. Did I mention that they often collected more than was required and kept extra for themselves? Many of us us were deeply moved by the coming-to-faith story of Michael Franzese , the former mob boss for the Colombo crime family in New York. But in His pre-Jesus years, chances are, he wasn’t the kind of guy you had any intention of inviting over for dinner with your family.

PROSTITUTES: Though this line of work still exists today, the closest comparison [to help you feel the weight of being associated with this group] would be porn actors. When was the last time you invited a porn star to your Beth Moore small group Bible study [without trying to convert her before the end of your meeting]?

ZEALOTS: Did you know that one of Jesus’ 12 disciples was a man named, Simon the Zealot? Do you know what a modern label for a Zealot is? Terrorist! Zealots were members of a first-century Jewish political movement who often used violent and aggressive tactics to overthrow their occupying oppressors [Romans]. They even had a nickname, “The Sicarii”, which means, dagger-men. Let’s face it, this is not the group you’d be most comfortable inviting to your all-nighter prayer lock-in.

I could go on describing the different categories of people Jesus spent time with, but hopefully you get the point. In his book, “Church Transfusion”, Neil Cole makes a poignant statement. He says: “He [Jesus] did not hang out in safe places. I imagine that today you would be more likely to find Jesus in a gay bar than at a church service.” Can I get an amen? No? You mad, bro? I thought you wanted to be like Jesus? Seriously though, when was the last time you or I went to a gay bar, or invited our gay friend to hang out with the dudes, just to be a positive godly influence? See where I'm going with this?

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To be clear, Jesus Christ was NOT hanging out with these people because He preferred them to “Church people.” He was NOT hanging out with them because He enjoyed their choice of lifestyle, nor was He hanging out with them because He wanted to expose their sin. Jesus spent time with them because He cared deeply about their story, and more importantly, their souls. He spent time with them because He Himself was life, and He wanted them to turn from sin, to Him, so they could experience the joy of being adopted by faith into God’s family.

Perhaps you and I can learn a thing or two from our savior?

Ricky Bobby once started his prayer this way, “Dear Lord Baby, …tiny infant Jesus, in your golden-fleece diapers, with your tiny, little, fat, balled-up fists….” Some of us laughed at that prayer. Some of us experienced righteous indignation, because clearly, Lord Baby Jesus’ diapers weren’t golden. They were regular Huggies, Snug & Dry, size-1 diapers!

I'm kidding. They were size-2!

While we certainly don’t hold to the view that Jesus remained an infant His whole life, not many of us have graduated in our understanding that He was much more than just a great teacher. Listen, you can't run away from this, Jesus was odd and there was an Other-worldliness to Him. He did things that startled people and made them say, “…what manner of man is this??” which is really a 2015-way of saying, “Uh…this brotha ain’t from around here!”

Let's look at 3 of those instances:

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Allow me to wrap up this point with a quote from author, C.S Lewis. In his book, "Mere Christianity" he writes, “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: [which is] “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

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