The Need for Compassion

It has been said that the church is not a club for saints but a hospital for sinners who have been wounded by the scars of sin.

Look around at the people you go to church with every week. Chances are that, looking only at outward appearances, all is well: the forced smile has been pasted on; the deep pain of life has been pushed temporarily aside; the convenient cliché, "I?'m fine! How are you? Fine. That?'s fine..." comes to mind.

A church that has unity is unified because they have compassion for people. They have made a decision to become real and vulnerable. They have discovered by their own experience that the church should be a place for compassion. It is not a place for pretending.

Practical Illustrations-Galatians-Colossians, by Leadership Ministries Worldwide

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