Bad Company

After this Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, "Follow me." And he got up, left everything, and followed him.

Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house; and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them. The Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?" Jesus answered, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance."

Then they said to him, "John's disciples, like the disciples of the Pharisees, frequently fast and pray, but your disciples eat and drink." Jesus said to them, "You cannot make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you? The days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days." He also told them a parable: "No one tears a piece from a new garment and sews it on an old garment; otherwise the new will be torn, and the piece from the new will not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine desires new wine, but says, 'The old is good.'" Luke 5:27-39 

Bad Company

The troublemakers and the rejects

the  lonely and the undesirables

those who don't get engraved invitations

come sit and keep me company.

 

Misfits and the awkward are welcome

the inept and foolish celebrated

the weary and those carrying burdens

are family at the table of God.

You who always sit to the side

they look down their nose at you and smile

you who can never get completely clean

find at seat at this table.

Misfits and the awkward are welcome

the inept and foolish celebrated

the weary and those carrying burdens

are family at the table of God. 

They pretended not to hear you in school

they ignore you as you speak at work

they left you behind whenever a chance

it is you whom he comes to find.

Misfits and the awkward are welcome

the inept and foolish celebrated

the weary and those carrying burdens

are family at the table of God.