Ministry Is Messy

If we take the call to love our neighbors seriously we are in for a bumpy ride. Truly loving our neighbors means we cannot hide nice programs and services we canot simply pray for our neighborhoods we have to get to know our neighbors. Once we get to know our neighbors on a real level One by one they start to invite us into their lives.

The problem is peoples lives are complicated especially in the city and our cute little programs and services don't awalys help real people with complicated problems and when we truly love them we cannot simply say sorry this is beyond our 'scope of service'

We get messy

recently my In-laws took in the two dependants of a 35 year old woman who died from cancer complications. These children were not the woman's but her neice and nephew whose father died about five years ago. My In-laws took them because no one in the family was really able to take take them they truly loved these children

I wonder what this world would look like if more people were willing to get messy

What if Pro-lifers were willing to take time and get training in counseling and spend time with young girls making the hardest decision of their lives what if they were to make a commitment to support the child even raiser her or him if the mother were to bring her or him to term. I realize that it is harder to make comitments that require so much but isn't that what true love is about?