What’s the difference between an occasional act of charity and a lifestyle of compassion?
I think it comes down to one core conviction which has it's roots in the first five words of the Bible: In the beginning God created… And a few sentences later (v. 27): God created people in His image.
Thousands of years later Jesus puts this core conviction into practice by affirming that all of scripture boils down to loving God and people. He then stresses that "people" actually means all people by telling a confrontational story about a man who is beaten and left to die but rescued by an unlikely hero. A compassionate man. A man who values all people as created in God’s image.
There's the guy who chips-in for the occasional charity golf game. And then there's the guy whose whole life is characterized by compassion.
One guy is looking for justification. The other values all people as created in the image of God.
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