“Jesus ate with prostitutes and other assorted sinners of His day...”
I’m curious what is your point?
Are you suggesting there were or are people who AREN’T sinners?
Christ certainly never approved, promoted nor even tolerated the sin of the sinners He encountered.
And when He famously forgave the prostitute/adulteress, His command to her afterwards was to sin no more.
I’m suggesting that the Bible preaches we are not to eat a meal with people who call themselves Christians but are conducting a sinful life...
While on the other hand, Jesus Himself ate meals with sinners.
He did not “remove Himself from the world”... in false asceticism.
Neither are we to be prissy stick-in-the-muds, who do not know how to mingle with people and indeed, love all people from all walks of life, demonstrating His love.
What I’m suggesting is we are to be “all things to all people” and love them “with a flavor of wit”...
And I do seriously wonder about all of these jerky lawsuits that make Christians look like idiot prissies who hate people who do not know Christ.