PRACTICAL NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANITY
MESSAGE #41
DO WE REALLY CARE?
PART 1
From Jesus' well-known parable of the sower and the seed may I repeat some very POWERFUL verses from my very first message here at CFS! Once again we see total contrasts here, that are so common in the NT:
Mark 4
18 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; 19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth ** and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.
And the next verse:
20 Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown."
FACT: we are ALL very wealthy!! Even the poorest of us! (we at least own a computer, right... plus what else??) Most of the world hasn't anything even vaguely like the money, housing, food, leisure-time and life-style that we have!!!
The near-death child above represents a shocking ONE-THIRD of the world
who we don't care about, while we rich people live in unconscionable affluence!
That's two thousand million people right now HAVING no option but to continue to live
without enough FOOD to sustain their very LIFE!!!
PLUS in almost all cases when the adults die, their destination is HELL,
because we never told them about JESUS!
That's sooo SHOCKING - and I will never apologise for writing about it again. Plus I will keep doing this, for so long as there remain real people living like that!!If you are already making moves towards responsible living to tangibly CARE about these dear but utterly HELPLESS folk, I figure you'll be applauding! If not, then I feel like I need to keep writing - if you see what I mean!
In our relative personal 'poverty' by Western standards, we already help in a small but very effective way with both of the above problems. PLUS we've had a wonderful Christian Charity set up since 2002 to enable a MASSIVE amount more to be done! To date we've been unable to do this, but anyone who wants may join with us - we'd love to hear from you!
When I know that the time is right in the Lord to tell you what we do, and how we do it, and why it's so effective, I shall immediately write it here (I actually don't quite understand why He's still not letting me - but He's not! This is the third time I've 'gone close'...)
continued...
We are always as close as a PM! With much love,
- BM and his Lady 
QUESTIONS WELCOME!