What do you see when you look at the imperfect people around you? What do you see when you look in the mirror? Do you tend to notice faults, failures, and moral shortcomings most? Or do you see the potential that God said was worth dying for, the Masterpiece hidden beneath the mud of sin in every person?

Beginning this week we will look at powerful lessons gleaned from encounters Jesus had with messy people and be challenged to consider whether our attitudes and actions resemble Jesus or the Pharisees. Based on a book by the same name by author John Burke.