We like deciding who is in and who is out. We like separating the sick from the healthy, the cool from the uncool, the holy people from the unholy ones. Mark records the Jesus invitation to a hated, rejected and despised tax collector named Levi Matthew, and the subsequent dinner party, to show us that Jesus preferred the company of the broken and the outcast to those who thought they had everything together. This sermon explores what Marks story means for us today.