Shunning My Neighbor (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In what I say, what I do how I live my life I pray I bring them to the cross ...
In what I say, what I do how I live my life I pray I bring them to the cross ...
Not to make members Christ's commission before ascending returning to God his last pronouncement offering us hope in his returning ...
Able to see our neighbor to walk in their sandals to stand in their place to understand their path Only ...
To make disciples as we have been called we must offer them Christ his love to go around to reach ...
The world complicated choices aplenty easy to stand in judgment to call another unworthy Looking in the mirror the way ...
Division, dissension derision, revulsion judging our neighbors while we yet sin Hate isn't Christian no part of his life nothing ...
Imitators of Jesus sheep of his flock followers of the master doing his work That we would put on the ...
Sent by Jesus out into the world to be his messenger his servant to go where he calls Through of ...
in the mirror of our neighbors our image, our reflection projected from our faces Do they see Christ when they ...
What a lesson we might learn if we could see ourselves how we walk in this world in the mirror ...
My life so different when I stop and remember Jesus not the babe in the manger but the man, the ...
Do you hear his words what he said on the cross asking for forgiveness for the whole world while we ...
What if we could stop and think about what he was thinking in that moment on the cross when Jesus ...
We are to use our gifts our blessings from God the riches we have received to be shared as we ...
Our lives should be centered not on temporal things not on things of this world on Christ, our savior, alone ...
If we had this right if we didn't get it wrong somehow we should be different somehow claiming the name ...
How are we different because we claim Jesus as our brother, as our savior as our Lord, living above? What ...
Maybe if we were like the first church with the apostles together sharing everything they had donating themselves as the ...
Like the first disciples understanding his message to the rich fool to give away his possessions while he walked on ...
What tears there must be in heaven because we do not love our neighbor only seeing the differences that let ...
The face of the Christ our risen savior who gives us life when we die with him who raises us ...
Needing to begin again as we are losing a generation shutting the door to them without our conscious thinking unable ...
Maybe to understand our failing to be truly faithful the harsh judgment that so many have made that we are ...
Just as in his words how we should walk in life caring for our neighbor bearing his burdens offering them ...
Seeing Jesus on the face of each stranger each person we meet in the image of God How would we ...
As a people as Christians falling far short of our calling not that this is surprising as we remain human ...
Have you ever heard the comment noticed the body language someone different maybe not in "church" attire the eyes saying, ...
So easy, to focus on differences how we are not alike on the outside alone forgetting how we all are ...
Hidden rules secret handshakes whether we say "debts" or "trespasses", how we do this or that whether you may participate ...
So much of the failing the estrangement from the church the institutions of our faith because it is easier to ...
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