Andrew, I loved your reflection!!! Totally agree with you. I just think we have to be more sensitive to the words we use in light of how society uses them which is often so different from Christian usage in order to really get our message across to them.
Amen, this is so true and beautiful!!!!! I would like to nit pick a little. I think we should cease to use the word charity and simply stay with the word love. I say that because in our modern society the word charity is misunderstood and used differently from the word love. To us moderns charity means giving money or material gifts of help. We can easily be charitable, be proud of ourselves and walk away without ever giving of ourselves. Love is giving the gift of ourselves and willing the good of the other even when it costs us from our very being. Love is sacrificial, giving till it hurts, entering to the life of another and truly caring, respecting and lifting up of another into life and the joy of life.
Andrew, I loved your reflection!!! Totally agree with you. I just think we have to be more sensitive to the words we use in light of how society uses them which is often so different from Christian usage in order to really get our message across to them.
Amen, this is so true and beautiful!!!!! I would like to nit pick a little. I think we should cease to use the word charity and simply stay with the word love. I say that because in our modern society the word charity is misunderstood and used differently from the word love. To us moderns charity means giving money or material gifts of help. We can easily be charitable, be proud of ourselves and walk away without ever giving of ourselves. Love is giving the gift of ourselves and willing the good of the other even when it costs us from our very being. Love is sacrificial, giving till it hurts, entering to the life of another and truly caring, respecting and lifting up of another into life and the joy of life.