HCLM BLOG

  We did the Christian Sharing Center's Annual Fund Raising Breakfast this morning, there were over 100 people present and more than $120,000.00 was pledged. Those who pledged became a part of "The Good Samaritan Club" these people have all pledged more than $1000.00 per year for 5 years. We had two video taped testimonies and one live testimony at the breakfast. Each of these made you want to cry as you heard just what their families have been through. You have to wonder just what would happen if the Christian Sharing Center was not there. Many of the people here in Florida only have family back up North and the Orlando area is so transient that people often do not make many friends. Where do you go when you have a problem?   

   I was thinking of the bible story of the Good Samaritan and the question the young man asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?" The story of the Samaritan is Jesus answer to that question. Too often we think that this story is simply about how the Samaritan treats this man that he did not know. He treated him very well, but Jesus point was that the Samaritan considered this wounded man his NEIGHBOR!  Everyone else walked by, he was unclean, an alien in their land, a gentile,         In the end Jesus makes His point that "Everyone who is in need, is my Neighbor." Which makes me wonder, what if every believer lived their life with that motto? How many people could we help? What kind of things would we do? So Who's Your Neighbor?

In Christ,
Pastor Paul