Jesus spent much of his time browsing over the lost and found table of Israel (that was why God sent him, he says). But there were a few who saw this and murmured: why do you spend so much time with all that junk? Hookers, crooked IRS agents, AIDS victims. In the two parables we look at this morning, Jesus responds with his answer: Because they are mine! They were lost and I've come to find them!