Your ePistle for April 8, 2009
Despised and rejected, sick and suffering, brokenhearted and alone: Today, within your reach, a person fitting this description struggles to face another day. At this very moment—in your neighborhood, in your place of work, in your congregation—someone suffers alone. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Jesus, who experienced virtually every hardship during his earthly life, understands their struggle. Jesus’ own people, troubled by his unconventional teaching, avoided him and accused him of insanity: “He has a demon and is out of his mind. Why listen to him?” (John 10:20) And Jesus, who reached out time and again to those society rejected—the demon-possessed, the diseased, the corrupt, the compromised—expects us to reach out to these same people, on his behalf, today.
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Kristyn Komarnicki
Editor, Christ & Culture, PRISM Magazine
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