Influencing People Takes Time

Note from today’s Bible reading: Matthew 8-9

One of the men Jesus called to be one of His disciple was Matthew, a tax collector (Matthew 9:9). Immediately afterward, Jesus and His disciples visited and ate with “many tax collectors and sinners” (Matthew 9:10).

The tax collectors were generally looked down upon – hence the reason why they were mentioned with those who were simply identified as “sinn…