Comments on: God’s Church – Are we bringing rubber and road together… http://www.fracturedsaints.com/2010/02/gods-church-are-we-bringing-rubber-and-road-together/ never beyond mending Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dick Ness http://www.fracturedsaints.com/2010/02/gods-church-are-we-bringing-rubber-and-road-together/comment-page-1/#comment-1229 Dick Ness Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:18:21 +0000 http://www.fracturedsaints.com/?p=1242#comment-1229 I am getting more and more ok with trusting our pastor who has plenty of experience in this kind of mercy ministry. I'll play my role and come alongside as best I can. Regarding time and its cost, I agree. But if I can clarify, our church has more time than money at the moment, so why not spend the capital we do have? I've also heard of a couple others engaging with this person this week, so praise God for that! The more we can be in their life, the better it will be for them... and us. I am getting more and more ok with trusting our pastor who has plenty of experience in this kind of mercy ministry. I’ll play my role and come alongside as best I can.

Regarding time and its cost, I agree. But if I can clarify, our church has more time than money at the moment, so why not spend the capital we do have?

I’ve also heard of a couple others engaging with this person this week, so praise God for that! The more we can be in their life, the better it will be for them… and us.

]]> By: cxlink http://www.fracturedsaints.com/2010/02/gods-church-are-we-bringing-rubber-and-road-together/comment-page-1/#comment-1226 cxlink Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:36:02 +0000 http://www.fracturedsaints.com/?p=1242#comment-1226 Wow man. Tough stuff. Sounds like you are going through some stuff too, granted it may be just frustration at whats going on with a brother. My initial take on suffering is to stop it and like you said it isn't always the best. But regardless of whether you can fix it or not, I think Christians are called to come along side and enter into the suffering with someone. Offering encouragement and comfort. As far as why others aren't helping, I can only answer for myself. I don't know anything about the situation and a lot of that probably goes back to me not getting too involved in too many peoples time because of how selfish I am with my time. And as far as it not costing anything to get to know this person and hanging out, I would strongly disagree. I think time is a more valued asset then money. And getting people to freely give of it is a really hard sell. Wow man. Tough stuff. Sounds like you are going through some stuff too, granted it may be just frustration at whats going on with a brother.

My initial take on suffering is to stop it and like you said it isn’t always the best. But regardless of whether you can fix it or not, I think Christians are called to come along side and enter into the suffering with someone. Offering encouragement and comfort.

As far as why others aren’t helping, I can only answer for myself. I don’t know anything about the situation and a lot of that probably goes back to me not getting too involved in too many peoples time because of how selfish I am with my time.

And as far as it not costing anything to get to know this person and hanging out, I would strongly disagree. I think time is a more valued asset then money. And getting people to freely give of it is a really hard sell.

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