Where do you start?
Oct 31st 2005Stephen::Lifestyle
This was a question asked by a few of the people taking the class that I am teaching at Tabor in Melbourne. Homework for this week was to set your mobile phone to alarm you once a day for a week.
When your alarm went off, you had to check the labels on all of your clothes, think about the people in those countries that made them, pray for them, pray for their country and then to ask God how he might want to use you in bringing justice and shalom.
The discussion soon moved to the notion that this is a huge issue. Where do you start? What can one person do?
Great questions. Questions that I think lead to still more questions.
But as a mate of mine from my church often says, our culture has built some serious walls around us to try and keep us from peering over the fence to see what is going on in the world. It takes an enourmous effort on our part to live in this counter cultural way.
But when we do, there are some things that we might be able to do. And the star comment from this mornings class? Jess: “The one small thing we might do could make a huge difference to that person.”