Biblical Musings 15

Camel at a Convenience Store on the Road Between Jericho  and Jerusalem

And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." Luke 19:9,10 (NASV)

What does mean to seek and to save that which was lost? The man Jesus spoke this to in Jericho was Zaccheus, a traitor and a thief (what tax collectors were in those days). What kinds of people can we write off?