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by: Michael Steckel, Source Unknown
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One of the situations in the world that really just breaks my heart is that
taking place in southern Sudan. The persecution
which is happening there is just appalling. Villages are attacked, men are
killed and women are violated, and then
women and children are sold into slavery. Now this is not the only area of
persecution in the world but it is one of them.
There have been 1.2 million people killed in southern Sudan and yet the
western world does not seem to be too
concerned with the situation. Is that because we have become so comfortable
in our lives that we do not want to
bother? Is it because it is happening so far away from us that we cannot
identify with it? Is it because we do not see the
people but only hear bits here and there? The thing is that these people
are not alienated from us. They are not so
different that we cannot identify with them. Many are Christians and
because of that they are members of the same
family as we are. In today's scripture, we see that we become part of God's
family with fellow believers. It is not we
who pick and choose who should be members of God's family but we are made
members of his family. Since these
people are members of the Father's family they are important to us. One
thing that we can do as members of God's
family is pray for these people. We are called to accept all believers and
love them.
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++ Love for Others: A Hasidic Story
++ Story of the Fisher King, The
++ Lesson from Kobe, A
++ Rainy Night in New Orleans, A
++ Childhood and Poetry
++ Cure for Sorrow
++ George Pickett's Friend
++ He Rescues the Birds
++ Just a Little Smile
Books :
++ Christianity : A Global History
++ Fresh Power
++ The Changing Faces of Jesus
++ The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought
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