You have ever known one, or you were one, or you still think you are one. You went to school with them. Maybe you grew up with them. Maybe you live with them. Maybe you even think you are married to them. They are easily identified by the labels that we put on them such as: losers, rejects, nerds, geeks, or failures.

They get mocked, bullied, ridiculed, and made fun of. They are ostracized and isolated. They are on the outside looking in and nobody ever offers to let them in. You might say they are “On The Fringe.”

One of the most amazing things about this man named Jesus is the fact that He gravitated toward the people we run away from. The people that repel us He was drawn to like a magnet. The people we overlook are the people He looked over. The people we wouldn’t get the time of day…