Grace has a way of surprising us.

Sometimes we assume Jesus is waiting for us to get our lives together before he comes near. We imagine that we need to clean things up, fix what is broken, hide what is messy, and somehow become more presentable before we are welcome at the table.

But in Luke 5:27–32, Jesus calls Levi while he is still sitting at the tax booth. Levi was the kind of person many people had already written off, judged, and labeled. But Jesus saw more than the label. He saw a person.

Anne McIntosh, one of Legacy’s church leaders, continues our summer series, Pull Up a Chair, with a message called Scandalous Grace.

Together, we’ll look at the grace of Jesus that meets us where we are, loves us too much to leave us there, and turns our lives into an invitation for others. Because Jesus did not come for people pretending to be healthy. He came for the sick, the overlooked, the messy, and everyone honest enough to know they need grace.