Luke 5:27-32<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is a remarkable story, and one, it seems to me, that is characteristically\u00a0Christian.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s easy to imagine how today\u2019s critics and journalists would have reacted to the calling of Matthew\/Levi to the Twelve.<\/p>\n
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Journalists would undertake investigations into his past dealings, eagerly interviewing people with tales to tell of his shady transactions, his unfairness, his greed, his history of self-seeking collaboration with an oppressive regime. \u00a0Critics of the Church would triumphantly parade all of these stories before the public \u2014 some of them perhaps true, many of them dubious and distorted if not altogether false \u2014 demanding to know whether this is really the sort of man that the Lord would call into his service. \u00a0\u201cIsn\u2019t Christianity just Matthew\u2019s latest scam?\u201d they would suggest. \u00a0\u201cWhat kind of a movement is this,\u201d they would inquire of their audience, \u201cthat is made up, to significant degree, of\u00a0semi-literate rural peasants, rapacious tax-farmers, and, in at least the case of Judas, somebody with a known history of extremist political views?\u201d<\/p>\n
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