| How Should We See The Lost - Especially When They're Ignorant? |
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| Written by Patrick Morley |
| Sunday, March 27 2005 19:00 |
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Matthew 9:36 could have said, “When Jesus saw the crowds, he was sickened by their depravity and ignorance.” No doubt he was, but his first impulse, and the ethos of Scripture and God, was compassion. The text actually says, “When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.” C. S. Lewis, when debating non-believers at Oxford University, said, “Before we could debate them we first had to correct their almost bottomless ignorance of the faith they supposed themselves to be rejecting.” Surely he didn’t make them feel like depraved idiots if he was trying to win them. The full article is available FREE to registered users. Please SIGN UP or LOGIN to view. |





