Do You REALLY Care?

You would not know it about this culture which surrounds the lives of those whom "claim" to be "christian", nor by their behavior in any given situation - but CHRISTIANS are called to be "CARING" - towards each other, towards the lost, towards the culture as a witness!  Nowhere are we told to be anything other than loving ...

Mark 7:31 - 37

If you desire to care, as Jesus cared, there are four things you must do:

• Care Individually
• Communicate Clearly
• Identify Fully
• Be Changed Completely

Nothing shows this more meaningfully for me that my involvement in the Seattle gay community during the 1980 to 1984 timeframe.  I was selling cut stones back then and I was to become friends with 34 men of the local community whom "deemed" me as being "real".  These men, I counted as friends, as they did me.  It was a horrible time, these men knew they were dying and why, I did witness to each of them - with NO observed changes in 33 of them.  That did not mean I wrote them off ... I stayed, I helped care for them - at a time when no one understood what the disease was nor fully its transmission, until they died.  Oh how that hurt to lose so many in so short a time.

One of them however, did repent, he did turn to God - he even explained to me he desired no healing, he deserved death.  He understood his choices had cost him heavily and this was what was necessary for him to have found salvation.  I remained in his family's life at least until the "christian" media descended upon them in order to capitalize on his death.  I always wondered how you tell someone's story when you cut out the politically incorrect one to have cared enough to risk self and identify with him ....  I never saw the special they ran, no reason to, I knew the story, it is no different than any of our stories - we do what we want to do, are surprised when we get caught and complain when we have consequences.

You have to KNOW your own testimony and why it is relevant to them and you!
You have to understand where they are coming from - lost in sin and it ain't pretty!
Then how to communicate what they need to know and do ...
But, this is oh so much in the realm of the Holy Spirit, not of you at all.

In my opening here I already spoke on Identity, you do not have to KNOW and PRACTICED their sin - you are a sinner, you have lots of practice.  So, get off the soap box and reach out to real people, once you are ...

But, none of this possible unless you are willing to live for Jesus alone - completely changed on the inside, knowing what is real and what is not.  And God will lead you were you never expected, once you can do this ...

Oh yeah, I need to mention once again that you will be turned on by friends and family alike - and you still get to love them in their Satanic hatred of you ...