Street Child
I watched Street Child by Elan today.
It got me thinking about the homeless, the drug addicts, the alcoholics, the prostitutes. All the people Jesus hung out with.
Jesus says in John 13:34 & 35 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know you are my disciples, if you love one another."
So who did Jesus hang out with? Apart from his disciples he seemed to spend a bit of time amongst the poor, women, Samaritans, lepers, children, prostitutes and tax collectors. Or in today's world, the poor, disadvantaged (eg Aborigines), people from different cultures / countries, children, prostitutes, drug addicts and alcoholics.
How many of these people have I hung out with recently? I walk through Redfern every weekday to get to uni. I walk past mentally disturbed people in Burwood every day. I've done this for years and yet how many of them have I initiated a conversation with? How is this showing my love for them as a Christian? Do I even love them or am I too caught up in my own self-centredness to care?
My question is now, how do I change this?
It got me thinking about the homeless, the drug addicts, the alcoholics, the prostitutes. All the people Jesus hung out with.
Jesus says in John 13:34 & 35 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know you are my disciples, if you love one another."
So who did Jesus hang out with? Apart from his disciples he seemed to spend a bit of time amongst the poor, women, Samaritans, lepers, children, prostitutes and tax collectors. Or in today's world, the poor, disadvantaged (eg Aborigines), people from different cultures / countries, children, prostitutes, drug addicts and alcoholics.
How many of these people have I hung out with recently? I walk through Redfern every weekday to get to uni. I walk past mentally disturbed people in Burwood every day. I've done this for years and yet how many of them have I initiated a conversation with? How is this showing my love for them as a Christian? Do I even love them or am I too caught up in my own self-centredness to care?
My question is now, how do I change this?
posted by - Matt at 15:55
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