SERMON NOTES

#STRUGGLES Series

"Compassion"

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We care 40% less than people did In the 1980s.

How does technology cause us to care, less?

    We’re more obsessed with ourselves.   

    Overwhelming exposure to suffering desensitizes us.

    Lack of personal interaction makes it easier not to care.

    Compassion counts.

         True compassion demands action.

         To say you care but not act is to not care at all.

Compassion:

Interrupts

Costs

Changes lives

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES (Various Text)

splagchnizomai (splangkh-nid'-zom-ahee); to have the bowels yearn, feel deep sympathy, to be moved to action.

A man with leprosy came and knelt in front of Jesus, begging to be healed. "If you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean," he said. 41 Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out and touched him. "I am willing," he said. "Be healed!"

Mark 1:40-41 NLT  

When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.

Matthew 14:14   

Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him.

Matthew 20:34