This year southern California’s winter has seen cold weather many have never experienced. The homeless migrate to this area for the normally tolerable cold weather. However, this year it has been different. Here is the parable…..
A man, called a Bishop recognized the severity of the weather conditions for the homeless and writes a scathing but heartfelt post on Facebook about the lack of response from the churches. He ask what would Jesus do and speaks about building relationships to reach our cities. He addresses these questions to all with an emphasis on small and mega churches. One person responded in agreement and said we need to come together to do something.
Another man saw a few homeless people. One homeless man was lying on a bench trying to sleep shivering from the cold. This man took his jacket and put it on the man and considered what more can I do. He also took to Facebook and wrote a post. It was simple and to the point. The post said, I saw homeless people visibly cold, he went on to say that on a certain day he would be at a certain place giving blankets to the homeless and invited others that have an extra blanket to come and help.
Now my question is which of these two men are the true church of God, the body of Christ?
Man # 2...moved into action immediately and had a follow through/ follow up plan. Man # 1 tried to appeal to the church and I use that term loosely, and seems like he got little to no response. Which could also be the case with Man # 1 ..the moral of the story is...you see a need, do something about it yourself..like Man # 2
ReplyDeleteThe good Samaritan. Duh!
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