Fixing People Vs. Knowing Them

rant...

You're not wise enough or powerful enough your church building will never be big enough, nor your programs amazing enough.

I do not mean that we should stop serving people but, that we should cease believing that serving people or cliches and pat answers will fix them.
And cease being angry with the recievers of our service when they arent fixed by our efforts. Why should the one being served be burdened by the need of our validation?

The best you can hope to do is to know them and do your best to love them.
Weep with them, laugh with them, pray for them, live beside them.

Honor them.
Honoring presupposes that you disagree,(otherwise you would simply be "honoring" yourself)
Christ told us to honor one another. Which to me means his goal was not for us to agree on everything.
Often we seek out only those who agree with us and call that church.
As soon as we disagree we split the church and start a new one.
What a sick picture. We do the same in friendships...
Missing out on the highest of the virtues taught by christ, honoring one another.
How can anyone ever feel unconditional love without being known?
How often has someone thought "if you really knew me you wouldnt like me"
We must first reallly know them to reallly love them.

We cannot truly love or hate what we do not know. Leonardo Da Vinci

Beloved let us love one another.

Be excellent to one another- Bill and Ted

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes.

"Depart from me, I never knew you..."

If we are telling people that God wants to know them, but we havnt taken the time to know them, then what does that mean?
How will they ever know what it means to be known? Have you ever been known?




posted by Andy at 9:28 PM | |