Has shame shaped how you see yourself and how you approach God? What if Jesus’s response is not rejection, but a willingness to come close and the power to heal? In today’s episode, Luke shares how Jesus’s touch of the leper and his forgiveness of the paralyzed man in Luke 5 show that he is both willing to come near to us and able to make us clean.

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Passage: Luke 5:12–26

Jesus is Willing. Jesus is Able. | The Gospels | Luke 5:12–26