Mark 2:13-17 NLT
Then Jesus went out to the lakeshore again and taught the crowds that were coming to him.
As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at his tax collector’s booth. |
“Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him.
So Levi got up and followed him. Later, Levi invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with
many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. (There were many people of this kind among Jesus’ followers.)
But when the teachers of religious law who were Pharisees saw him eating with tax collectors and other sinners,
they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat with such scum?”
When Jesus heard this, he told them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do.
I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”

THE BIG IDEA: 

When we are __________ there is no ____________!

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Luke 18:13 NLT
But the tax collector stood at a distance and dared not even lift his eyes to heaven as he prayed. Instead, he beat his chest in sorrow, saying, ‘O God, be merciful to me, for I am a sinner.’

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Grace: __________________________________________________

Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT
God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 ESV
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.