Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Hey, I want to say hello to all of our campuses and everyone joining us online or on demand, our gateway gatherings, and of course our prison campuses.

I just want to say, as we do every so often, you're not a project to us. You are a part of our church

family, and we thank God for you. Can we put our hands together at every campus and welcome all those

who are with us for the very first time? Come on, let's welcome. Come on, let them know that you love them.

Man, we're glad that you're here. I want to, we're in week two of this series called That's a Great Question. This is leading all the way up to Easter. And if you haven't gotten a copy of the devotional guide, we want to make sure that you get that. And I want you to follow along each day. I've been following along with it, doing my devotions out of it. It's been a wonderful guide,

and it's going to lead us all the way up to Easter. We're in week two of that series. If you miss week one, you can catch it on demand. And I'm going to look at Luke chapter 15 today. I'm really

excited about this message, and I hope you'll catch the heart of it. Luke chapter 15, verse 1 through 7,

scripture says, now the tax collectors and sinners were gathered around to hear him.

If you work for the IRS or, you know, the Bible kind of categorizes sinners and then there's tax

collectors. So, but says, but the Pharisees and were gathered around him to hear him, but the Pharisees and the teachers

of the law, they muttered.

This is what they were saying under their breath.

This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.

And then Jesus tells them this parable.

So his response to their muttering is a parable. And he says this.

Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, who does not leave the 99 in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?

And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home.

And then he calls all of his friends and neighbors together and says,

rejoice with me.

I have found my lost sheep.

I tell you that in the same way,

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