Calling Sinners

“ I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” 

                                                                                                                              Luke 5:32
Jesus has not come to call the righteous but the sinners to repentance. Something I believe is lost on some believers.
In my more than forty years now as a Christian now have heard from many none-Christians that they feel that Christianity gives a negative message. That it in the words of one man “is a religion of exclusion not inclusion.” How sad.
Christianity if correctly practised is most certainly a faith of inclusion. It is only misguided men and women that make it seem like the opposite.
Jesus notes in Luke 5:32 that,

“Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.  

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” 

                                                                                                                             Luke 5:31,32
He didn’t come to call the righteous the, the believers. They didn’t need to be called. His purpose in coming was to point people to heaven.
That should be our purpose in life as believers.
We should be willing to sit down with non believers of any stripe and offer them the gift of salvation that only Christ can give.
We should never be screaming or even whispering from the pulpit or even our homes that people are filthy sinners.There should never be such things as 'special sins'
In doing so you are showing that you are the sinner because you are judging some one in violation of the command issued by Jesus in Matthew 7:1 not to judge anyone.
Calling a person a sinner is counter productive. Only the Holy Spirit can convict people of their sins.
The Talmud a Jewish book of wisdom notes,
“An aged man, whom Abraham hospitality invited to his tent, refused to join him in prayer to the one spiritual God.  Learning that he was a fire-worshipper.   Abraham drove him from his door.  That night God appeared to Abraham in a vision and said: ‘I have borne with that ignorant man for seventy years: could you not have patiently suffered him one night?”
We as Christians need to take note, especially when it comes to dealing with non-believers.
We need to bear with them and present the gospel of Jesus to them even if it is only in our actions. In doing so we may just lead that person to a new life in Christ.
 Think about it.