Dallas Buyers Club: Calling Sinners, Not the Righteous (Mark 2:17)

In Dallas Buyers Club, Ron Woodroof—a rodeo cowboy dying of AIDS—becomes an unlikely advocate for HIV patients. Homophobic and self-destructive, Ron initially wants only to save himself. But smuggling medicine transforms him. He befriends Rayon, a transgender woman he once would have despised. "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." Ron wasn't the hero anyone expected. Neither was Jesus—eating with tax collectors, touching lepers, befriending prostitutes. Grace often enters through the least respectable door. The people who need saving rarely look like the people we expect God to use.