would Jesus go to Rudy's Tacos?

today i met a friend at Rudy’s Taco. we chatted about relationships, the ups, the downs, my divorce, her girlfriend, what makes a person go to hell or not go to hell, what makes someone right with God. it was a nice to sit and eat, to chat with someone about life and God, to laugh and to share from the heart. but it got me to thinking…

you know the wrist bands that have become so popular. you can find them at just about any retail shop and in just about any color you like. every “cause” has caught on and you can wear one for breast cancer, domestic violence, ending poverty, peace or war. you can advertise your opinions, your experience, your just-about-anything-you-can-name. these wrist bands have combined with another late great fad, the W.W.J.D. (What Would Jesus Do?) movement.

and today’s conversation had me wondering just that. but more than what Jesus would do, i had another question that kept popping up as i drove back to work. W.W.J.G.: Where Would Jesus Go? or perhaps Where Wouldn’t Jesus Go describes my thoughts more accurately. are there places Jesus wouldn’t go? are there places he would avoid, not out of a self-righteous I’m-too-holy-for-this-place, or out of fear that sin would rub off, but rather because it is wrong or for the need to make a statement about some moral or social ill?

if he lived and breathed among us today how would he balance the New Testament call to “abstain from all appearance of evil” and yet be the man that appalled the religious leaders of his day, a man they said was a ‘glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and “sinners?” ’