His compassion drives the worker bees crazy in a dizzying, happy sort of way.
Throw open the doors on Friday night and invite all the ladies of the community in for Chocolate Night. Don't notice that Mother's Day is two days later when we give all moms a beautifully boxed, delicious homemade treat.
Set up on Everett Street when it's closed down for Halloween trick-or-treaters and serve free (Nathan's) hot dogs to every person you see.
Take over Riverfront Park every July 4th and provide inflatables for kids, powerful music, more free hot dogs, and stay open until the fireworks begin.I have only begun to understand that Jesus is relentlessly compassionate.
Did you catch in yesterday's story (Day 2) that the religion scholars and Pharisees, in their cold, literal translation of the law (bringing the adulterous woman to Jesus for potential stoning), found themselves segregated from Jesus?
Does lack of compassion in reaching people with the good news of Jesus segregate us from Him?
People have left our church because they think the battle is with each other--you're not enough of this, you are too much of that.
The battle is within ourselves as evangelicals to destroy our haughty eyes and humbly submit to Jesus' School of Relentless Compassion.
Truth for the woman caught in adultery ("Go on your way. From now on, don't sin.") was only applied after Jesus freed the stage from religion scholars riding their high horses of superiority.
Compassion is the hardest work imaginable. Not only are you serving your heart out--you are asking God for surgical removal of the parts of your heart that look down on others for any reason. Then you are immersing yourself in invitational training so you can see people with a newly energized and radically pure heart.
Love 'em onto the Jesus stage where His truth shall set them free.
And recovering evangelicals? We, too, are welcome on the Jesus stage of compassion.
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