Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Involvement in social good


I find universal agreement that Christians should be involved in doing good. I want to ask why bother, what does it look like and why do we sometimes find it so hard?

Why bother?
We know only too well that we live outside the garden of Eden, where work is toil and relationships and strained. But even under the curse, humanity has under God the capacity and responsibility to care. God works for the good of his creation, and being in the image of God means that we have the blessing to use the fruits of our labour to do good.

Sure this world is passing away (vain, in older Bible translations), but that does not excuse from compassion and service when we see a need. The transitory nature of this world will affect what we support as we strive for things eternal, but it does not overturn our responsibility to care in the here and now.

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