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When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

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Well, it is Friday on the Daily Drive, and we've been talking about family and specifically this week

about drawing bigger family circles and getting

intentional about time around tables. And I don't know how many tables Jesus built in his carpentry

career, but he sure was around him a lot during his ministry. He just got super intentional about

eating with people because in his day, who you chose to eat with was such a big deal.

We talked about this Monday how eating with someone was a statement that you wanted to be with them.

Eating with someone was an affirmation of that person's value, their dignity, their worth.

In fact, who you ate with indicated who you liked, who you loved, who you cared about,

who you considered to be a part of your social class.

And Jesus was intentionally around tables for that reason.

There's a series of stories that Jesus tells in Luke chapter 15 that illustrate the heart

of God. Some of you are familiar with those three stories about a lost sheep, a lost coin,

and a couple of lost

boys, the most famous one being, the one commonly known as the parable of the prodigal son.

But did you know why? Jesus told those stories? I want you to see how Luke 15 starts.

It says this. Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach.

This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people, even eating with them.

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