This Sunday

Mark 16:15 (NIV)

. . . “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”

Matthew 5:14-16 (NIV)

14 You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”

2 Corinthians 5:20 (NIV)

We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. . .

Luke 5:27-32 (NIV) says:

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. ‘Follow me,’ Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him. Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law complained, ‘Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?’ Jesus answered, ‘It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.’

Colossians 4:5-6 (NIV) says:

“Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt. . .”