What are you doing for others?
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’“ Dr. King once said to an audience in Montgomery, Alabama in 1957. It is hard to believe that it has been 63 years since this question was asked.
Currently in our nation we are witnessing unprecedented generosity and good-will toward each other. The need is great, and the heart of America is shining through. AWESOME! The context of the original speech was an America that segregated people and limited their access and possibilities. We were gripped by an ideological pandemic of segregating people groups as an acceptable way to act in America.
Today, we are gripped by a biological pandemic that is literally costing thousands of people’s lives. Who started it and Why are issues for global leaders to sort out? Yet we are serving our fellow man in amazing ways.
Faith-based organizations have been guided by ancient words from the 1st Century in Matthew 28:16-20 NIV; “16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
The Faith-Communities pathway and the content that drives our purpose is embedded in these ancient words. Do you hear what it is saying? Do you see how this persistent and urgent question can be answered? Do we understand the answer to the question, “What are you doing for others?” demands an infinite-minded response. In other words, the strategies we choose are bigger than the days of our lives.When this pandemic passes from us, my prayer is that we will live out BIG “C” (Church/Kingdom) behaviors. I do not want to go back to little “c” goals (Religious “isms, territorial/turf debates, placing an eternal God in a box).
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