What would Jesus do?
What would Christians do?
I feel like there is a massive gap. A gap that needs to be closed.
I think it was sparked by seeing a trailer for a short film called We Will Make You Whole Again. It gave me the image that Jesus is in the business of making people whole again. Restoration is an important and obvious doctrine in the bible. What are we doing to heal the broken in today society? What am I doing on the 22nd of April 2010, sat in Durham University Library that is reconciling broken lives? What can I do? What can I change?
I remember a Mother Theresa quote that I read earlier today....
"Let us thus praise you in the way you love best,
by shining on those around us.
Let us preach you without preaching,
not by words but by our example,
by the catching force,
the sympathetic influence of what we do.
The evident fullness of the love our hearts bear to you.
Amen"
"the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what we do."
I need to start opening my eyes, looking around for broken lives and I need to preach by my example, because of the love of my heart for Jesus.
I yearn for the day when I can ask What would Jesus do? and look around and see what my Christian brothers are doing.
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"Preach the gospel at all times and when necessary, use words."
St Francis of Assisi.
I live by that quote. Whenever I feel like rubbish for not reaching out with a testimony or a quote from scripture, I remember that my actions speak more than I could with words.
Yeah man, I love that. By all things we do glorify and share the good news...
however... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi
what I hear about St.Frank is that he actually preached very regularly (I seem to remember hearing someone talk about him and say daily), which gives a bit more context about that quote.
Says a lot about his life. It was necessary for him to preach a lot and live his life as a service to God preaching through his examples (because he was known for that as well)
I really want to read about him. He is a giant.
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