Mark 2:15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
I can just imagine what the news headlines would have read for days
A: Popular rabbi and self acclaimed messiah, Jesus of Nazareth found eating, drinking and enjoying himself with Especially notorious sinners, harlots and agberos
B: Jesus of Nazareth, self acclaimed son of God gives license to sin..
He was seen yesterday eating and drinking with sinners and encouraging them to continue in sin that grace may abound
C: Popular hyper grace preacher finally caught encouraging sinners to continue in sin. He did this by eating and drinking with them in their numbers and he didn't even invite them home, he went to their house along with his disciples and church members to encourage them to do the same
And like someone said, "sinners know how to eat and enjoy themselves, and they don't serve Fanta and Coke".
Do you only preach the gospel of no condemnation when it's convenient?
Do you preach the same message of forgiveness of sins (past, present and future) to everybody or only to a select audience?
Would you preach the same message to people in the very act of sin?
How would you address a believer struggling with sin?
Do you set the gospel aside first and face "reality"?
Mark 2:14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Levi got up and followed him.
15 Later, Levi invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. (There were many people of this kind among Jesus’ followers.)
16 But when the teachers of religious law who were Pharisees saw him eating with tax collectors and other sinners, they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat with such scum?”
17 When Jesus heard this, he told them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”
If you cannot preach to a sinner whom you found in the act of sin without mentioning his sin, then you haven't preached the gospel to him.

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