Everybody, what is going on?

You know what time it is.

You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.

What's up, guys?

It's your substitute teachers here for the third and final day.

It's me, Jermaine Harrison, joined by my guest co-host, Will McElroy.

And we are so excited to walk through Luke 15. Harrison, joined by my guest co-host, Will McElroy. Come on.

We are so excited to walk through Luke 15 with you guys today.

I love Luke 15, and I think it's probably one of the more beloved passages in the Bible.

And the reason why is because I think it's so relatable.

Like anyone reading through this, wherever you are in life, whatever you even believe about faith, like, there's something in this chapter for you.

In verse one, Jesus is, you know, he's hanging out with the people who are on the margins of society of his day, the tax collectors and the sinners.

And we see the religious leaders, the elites, who Jesus had just had dinner with in the chapter before.

They're like looking at Jesus like, what are you doing?

Why are you hanging out with those people?

They're second-class citizens.

You shouldn't be with them.

They're unclean.

But Jesus, by his actions and by his presence,

shows that he is committed to building relationships with people wherever they've been, whatever they've

done, whatever their life circumstance is. And so the idea being portrayed here by Jesus's example is that God is committed to the

one. No matter how lost that one person is, no matter how broken they are, no matter how mounting

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