Admittedly we go where few go and reach down into pockets of filth! Human Jetsam! Interacting with those living in urine and vomit splashed alleys among scattered needles, bottles and old plastic sacks of paint and contact-cement.
People that come alive at night.
A smelly, dirty collection of people that no one wants to associate with, and for good reason. Who wants to invest in losers? Who wants to sow seeds in this weed patch? ... and who wants to support people who do?
Why do we go to this undeserving segment of society?
Why?
For God's sake! As Christians our light and ministry of love is meant to penetrate the darkness through the credibility earned by association with these people.
In the dark, where lights belong!
We aren't always accepted. We aren't always loved. Love and respect are earned and it isn't always easy.
And more than that, it takes time.
One thing for sure, Christians are not called to be a light seated corporally forming a candelabra of incredible divine wattage under a cross.
Indeed there needs to be a time for "church"; there is a time for worship, for meetings and Bible study" BUT there is a time that we Christians should simply BE THE CHURCH; His people scattered like salt among the world ... scattered like lights in the darkness.
God's random, yet Divine method. A method that still puzzles Theologians.
Sounds a little like the Believers back in the Antioch days. in those days Believers didn't hide in a building waiting for "seekers" ... somehow they were taught that the Church was them. (Acts 26:28)
The world could see the difference because it was obvious. And our name "Christian" began.
It's time again, that the world sees Christians in action.
