Dave Dority
Matthew 9:9-12 (NIV) – As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
“Contagious Community”
Matthew 9:12 (NIV) – On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
Galatians 2:20a (NKJV) – I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me
Chris Pasik: Don’t Waste Your Life
Acts 1:8 ESV – But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Act 2:1-4a ESV – When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit…
Jeremiah 1:4-5 NIV – The word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you
v. 5b ESV – before you were born I set you apart;
v. 5c ESV – I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
v. 6a ESV – “Ah, Sovereign LORD,”
v. 6 ESV – “Ah, Sovereign LORD,” I said, “I do not know how to speak; I am only a child.”
v. 7-8 NIV – But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the LORD.
