The one about who Jesus would hang out with….porn exchanged for Bibles…
Ξ December 2nd, 2005 | → 6 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
I have got to tell you about an article I found reading digg. Apparently a group in UT of Austin @ San Antonio, TX is giving out free pron magazines in exchange for Bibles . Here is the link to the blog that taks about it:
notice in the second picture that the sign above the table is asking People to donate to the Salvation Army? Heh….. I just love how God will be present in the midst of a fallen world! But seriously…the first thing I did when I went to the pictures is I zoomed in as much as I could and I looked at the people working the booth. I immediately prayed for them…but then I thought…..”How many Christians would get so mad that they would never have their wits about them to go up to them and ask if they could buy them lunch or go to their house for lunch?
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Matthew 5:43 “You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. 44 But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! 45 In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. 46 If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. 47 If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that. 48 But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.
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(Oh and just in case if you have forgotten make sure you do not create more of your “enemies” by not following the next few verses):
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6:1 “Watch out! Don’t do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven. 2 When you give to someone in need, don’t do as the hypocrites do– blowing trumpets in the synagogues and streets to call attention to their acts of charity! I tell you the truth, they have received all the reward they will ever get. 3 But when you give to someone in need, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. 4 Give your gifts in private, and your Father, who sees everything, will reward you. 5 “When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can see them. I tell you the truth, that is all the reward they will ever get.”
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funny how when we are Christ followers that our enemies are not our own by God’s. And yet God in some crazy grace filled way….loves and cares for and even dies for our enemies….and asks us to do the same.
Don’t be mad at these people…or even crying sad….. just get up and go talk to them and give them the gift of grace, love, forgivness, food, drink, laughter, listening, listening, ad a little more listening!
