The body of Christ stretches far and wide, to the homeless, widow, orphan and addict. We are quick to scream about the injustice of such things. Which is nobel, and in the scripture we see that Jesus is also passionate about such things. We see that in James the writer speaks of not practicing favoritism, not letting a rich man sit in a high place and a poor man on the floor.
Jesus loved to feed people, this is well documented through the Bible. All one must do is first read the Gospels. This then fuels something inside someone to do the same. But it then makes me wonder how Jesus felt the mentally and physhically challenged. Sure we see him healing people who couldn't walk, but what always bothered me was he never said anything beyond his own actions.
For one who is mentally handicapped, what about them? I would hope that Jesus felt as strongly about a poor man, as he would a handiccaped person. This is why I cannot accept the doctrines of Calvinism, one of the five points of their docrtine is that for forknew all would accept faith and all who wouldn't. Which disturbs me because if a mentally handicaaped person is not capable of accepting the message of Christ, is God just going to send them to hell?
I'd hope not. It just bothers me to know that so many people that walk by anyone in a wheel-chair in most Churches. They belong to God too. We get so consumed with our selves and our individual beliefs, that we actually have the guts to walk by a mentally handiccaped person, or worse then give them weird looks.
what has happend to us? Enternity isn't just for those who have the ability to say "yes" on their own.
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This is a good post.