Love your neighbour
I have started watching BBC World News every evening at 7. It is the only news I can get here, that actually covers events happening outside the United States.
Tonight, I learned about the Democratic Republic of Congo - up until a half hour ago, I was like the rest of the world: ignorant of the "human catastrophe" going on there. People are being forced to move into displacement camps because both the military and the mai-mai rebels are burning their villages. Almost no aid gets to these camps, so most people starve to death. You can read more about this here: DR Congo
I am going to make a statement here. I think that as Christians, we have a responsability to find out what is happening in the world. And we need to be doing something about it. Why?
In Mark 12:29, Jesus answers a question about what the greatest commandment his. He says: "The first in importance is, 'Listen, Israel: The Lord your God is one; so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.' And here is the second: 'Love your neighbor as well as you love yourself.' There is no other commandment that ranks with these."
Do you remember the story of the good samaritan? It comes as an answer to the question "who is my neighbour?"In this age of world news and internet and skype and chat rooms, our neighbour is pretty much everyone in the world. And part of following Jesus means loving them as much as we love ourselves...
So what are we going to do?
Tonight, I learned about the Democratic Republic of Congo - up until a half hour ago, I was like the rest of the world: ignorant of the "human catastrophe" going on there. People are being forced to move into displacement camps because both the military and the mai-mai rebels are burning their villages. Almost no aid gets to these camps, so most people starve to death. You can read more about this here: DR Congo
I am going to make a statement here. I think that as Christians, we have a responsability to find out what is happening in the world. And we need to be doing something about it. Why?
In Mark 12:29, Jesus answers a question about what the greatest commandment his. He says: "The first in importance is, 'Listen, Israel: The Lord your God is one; so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.' And here is the second: 'Love your neighbor as well as you love yourself.' There is no other commandment that ranks with these."
Do you remember the story of the good samaritan? It comes as an answer to the question "who is my neighbour?"In this age of world news and internet and skype and chat rooms, our neighbour is pretty much everyone in the world. And part of following Jesus means loving them as much as we love ourselves...
So what are we going to do?
posted by Thais at 7:18 PM
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