When he looked out over the crowds, his heart broke. So confusedand aimless they were, like sheep with no shepherd. Matthew 9:36 (MSG)
When I was about 19, I began a job as an emergency responder. I canvividly recall one of my first calls because it started me on the journey I’mstill on today.
When we arrived on the scene, the first thing I heard was a littletoddler crying. He was sitting in the middle of the highway, surrounded bybroken glass and wearing only a diaper. A crowd had gathered but no one daredtouch him since he had been thrown from the vehicle on impact. Not far from himlay a baby with a fractured skull who was beyond help and the mother of bothchildren, barely hanging on to life. The father and another man lay beyondthem—one already dead and the other badly hurt.
It hit me hard later that day to find that both parents didn’t make it.As I continued to encounter situations like this one, my heart broke forpeople. Most of all, I wondered why the church seemed so irrelevantto this pain-filled world.
I believed in miracles and had witnessed several at church, but I wantedto see them in hospitals and in ditches at 3:00 a.m. when I was up to my anklesin water and blood. After all, Jesus healed people wherever He went.
What I wanted was a Spirit Contemporary approach. BeingSpirit Contemporary is one of my favourite subjects. Over the next few days,I’m going to share a bit more about it because this has the potential to changeeverything you thought you knew about being a Christian.
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