Luke 19:10

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.  Luke 19:10

Jesus speaks this scripture in Luke's account of the story of Zacchaeus.  Zacchaeus  is the chief among Publicans and very rich according to Luke.  In this story, the people who hear Jesus speak to Zacchaeus complain that Jesus would have anything to do with such a sinner.  Jesus then tells them that He has come to save such sinners.  To Zacchaeus Jesus says, "This day is salvation come to your house."  In this story I notice that Jesus never invites Zacchaeus to church.  Instead He invites himself into his house to save him.  Jesus' focus is on the lost man and his family's salvation, not whether he comes to church.  Today we seem to have drifted toward the notion that the lost are unchurched more than they are unsaved.  Jesus told the Publican that salvation had come to his house, not his church.  We must be on a quest to see the lost saved....Church attendance will follow.   Pastor John