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popping the bubble

Author: Brad
Filed under: quotes of note
Date: Apr 13,2006

From time to time, I would like to post a timely comment that pops up in the comment section of relevintage. This was a comment posted by one of my best friends, Mark, who is a public high school teacher in the St. Louis school district, on how important it is to have the heart and mind of a cultural redemptive:

When asked which is the “greatest” of God’s commandments, Jesus replied, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:37-39).The longer I live the more I’m convinced and convicted that Christians in our society forming relationships with lost people and showing them love by just being their friend and being an example is the greatest form of evangelism.

Recently in my church, one of the members of our youth group died suddenly. My pastor talked of the visitation and how people this kid had waited at a restaurant came to pay respects just out of how he lived his life and treated them.

In education there is a common trite expression used “people don’t care how much we know until they know how much we care”. I think the same holds true in our culture of corruption and Godly people walking away from their faith. People are desperate to be around radical, wide awake Christianity. Souls are tied to our obedience. Christians must perservere in the faith and be a light in a dark world as opposed to living in a bubble of Christian friends and influence.

Amen, Mark, amen!