Dinner Companions

It seems that Jesus dined with sinners.  He did not ask them to stop being sinners, or else God would get them.     He loved them.  He spoke words of comfort to the lower classes, the poor, the sick and marginalized.  Jesus was a man of compassion.  Some of us clergy today dine only with the people who are keeping the rules, attending to worship services, reciting the correct dogma and generally being obedient.  Some clergy harangue the people in sermons about faults and failings, not the clergies of course, and demand that people shape up to the official rule or code of conduct.  I don't think I would much care to dine with these religious officials.  I must be a sinner?  Well, Jesus seems good company to me.