The internet is full with data. Some of this data can be considered fact while other data has been shaped into opinions. The hard part, nowadays is to separate the fact from opinion, and more importantly the facts from fiction. So you will always find something on what you searched for. The question becomes; what will you do with this information that you found? How will it shape, or change your own opinions? Will you find information that backs up your belief? And if so, is it because you looked up articles written by organizations that naturally prescribe to your original viewpoint. In my line of work, when you search for something particular and then find it, we call it “bias conformation.” It works like this; you develop a question or hypothesis about a topic; you then form your own opinion on the topic before seeing a shred of information; then you search the very places throughout the internet that confirms your suspicion. Now with “evidence” in hand (forgetting all the information that countered your point) you declare your original stance as truth. Why, well because you found another article online that agreed with you. This is “bias conformation.” So what does this have to do with Luke 5:31-32? Well my fear is that Christians use a form of bias conformation all the time. We gather up in our “holy huddles” (stole this term from my wife’s BSF leaders) that reinforce our thoughts and opinions. Basically we are continuously saving the saved. In today’s scripture, Jesus was recorded saying (and doing) something very different. He was here to heal the sick. He wasn’t joining them but calling the “sinners to repentance.” Which meant, leaving the “huddle” to get out onto the field. Jesus didn’t cast out the lost and the sinners, he ate dinner with them.