Tuesday, October 25, 2011

At the core of the Crowd

What prevents me to reach out to the ones that Jesus calls us to love on is the concern of safety. There's one particular individual that I think of and it scares me to put my family in any harms way. I am open to being available but some of the circumstances I get pulled into is concerning. The one major thing I haven't being doing as much is praying/interceding for this person. I believe I can do this more.

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  1. I author cracks me up a little but it's cool. Well I hear what he's saying. I was one of those lost sheep. In fact that parable that Jesus gave was something that really spoke to me into coming back. It had a profound impact on me then and now. The meaning is very deep and the sincerity is beyond words.

    I'm actually attempting to get involved, with two other brothers, in a ministry where the "mainstream church" does not want to go. Youth that are on the outskirts of society. The rebels, the losers, the lost...the ones that Jesus would be going after as well.

    But through the years I think I'm understanding God's heart towards me and works. It's not necessarily the works that are important but it's more of how I am affected and changed during the whole process. It reminds me of that passage where those guys are in front of Jesus and they say to him "Did we not prophecy in your name, cast out demons in your name, perform many works in your name?" And Jesus' reply is "I never knew you depart from me..." No matter how "great" our work may be for God, if I fail to grow deeper with him in the process than I believe all that work was in vain and really all for myself.

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