If you had the choice between telling someone about something that was good or doing something good for that person, which would you do?
Often times, we in the church would simply like to tell the homeless person about Jesus rather than also helping him find housing. We might prefer to tell the teenager who has a rough situation at home “Jesus loves him (or her)” rather than also showing them the love of Christ by listening to them and trying to help.
Singing cheerful songs to a person with a heavy heart
is like taking someone’s coat in cold weather
or pouring vinegar in a wound. Proverbs 25:20 (NLT)
James, the brother of Jesus Christ, speaks about this in James 2:15 - 17 (NASB),
If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? 17Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.
If we wish to lead a lost world to Christ, we must remember that we are His body here on the earth, His hands, His feet, His eyes, His loving touch, His caring heart…
Those of us that claim Christ as Savior are His body in this world.
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