I'd Rather Join The Rotary Club

One thing I hear repeatedly about Jesus, is that He was tough on the religious Jews of His day, but went easy on the blatant sinners. True story. Today’s equivalent to the religious Jews would be the church. Would it not? So if Jesus were here, in the flesh today, He’d go easy on the sinners and play hardball with the church.

If that's the case, why on earth would anyone want to be a part of the church? A close friend of mine just led someone to Christ a couple of weeks ago. Is there a grace period where we continue being nice to new converts, at least for a little while? Maybe we should give them at least a month before we beat on them. How ‘bout a year?

In some ways, we are nicer to newcomers than we are to our own. We have block parties, barbeques, festivals, dessert nights and movie nights, sometimes in the hopes that we can at least get them on the property.

Was He hard on religious Jews? Or was He hard on the religious Jews who rejected Him?