Skitz was failing as a friend. For some reason he had changed and had not bothered to give his friends the memo. They looked in at his life and wanted to be part of it, but he did not know how to invite them in. We are more blessed than we realize. It has become a cliche that we all accept, but don’t really do anything about. Especially as adults we are burned out on need. We are so accustomed to seeing the adds with starving children on TV and hearing about it on the news that we have just accepted it as part of life. Something that we have no real chance to change. While that is true, it is not true enough. There is no way any of us, even in the richest country in the world, could help everyone, but we could certainly help someone. What is amazing very year we go to Mexico is that students do not have the moral shielding that adults do. When they see poverty, they don’t justify their wealth, they just give it away. They throw the little they have at those who need it, and run to get more. They are not worried about the practicality, or the sustainability of their efforts, they are just lost in a moment of total compassion. I wonder if the world would be a better place if we could all learn to be so irresponsibly compassionate.

1. Everyone can help someone...
hero 1Wednesday, February 4, 2009

2. Everyone can help someone...
The good we ought...
Skitz’s Story
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3. hero
Everyone can help someone...
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4. 16
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5. Everyone can help someone...hero
What should skitz have said to his
friends?
What did Skitz do right in the video?
What motivated Him to spend so
much time serving others?
What do you think he should do now?
What have you done to help others
with your resources?
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6. Amazing
resources
Crazy
Powers
Savesthe Day
Heroic
Resolve
Amazing
resources
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7. Everyone can help someone...
hero
1. Blessed to Bless:
(What will you do with your
amazing resources?]
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8. James 1:27 Religion that God our
Father accepts as pure and
faultless is this: to look after
orphans and widows in their
distress and to keep oneself from
being polluted by the world.
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9. James 4:13 Now listen, you who say, "Today
or tomorrow we will go to this or that city,
spend a year there, carry on business and make
money." 14 Why, you do not even know what
will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You
are a mist that appears for a little while
and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to
say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and
do this or that." 16 As it is, you boast in your
arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. 17
So then, if you know the good
you ought to do and don't do
it, you sin.
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10. To help us imagine what
poverty means, a prominent economist
itemized the "luxuries"
we would have to abandon if we were to
adopt the lifestyle of our 1.2 billion
neighbors who live in desperate poverty:
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11. We begin by invading the house of our
imaginary American family to strip it of its
furniture.
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12. Everything goes:
beds,
tables,
television set,
lamps.
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13. We will leave the family with:
a few old blankets,
a kitchen table,
a wooden chair.
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14. Along with the bureaus go the clothes.
Each member of the family may keep in his
"wardrobe" his oldest suit or dress, a
shirt or blouse. We will permit a pair of
shoes for the head of the family, but none
for the wife of children.
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15. We move to the kitchen. The
appliances have already been
taken out, so now we turn
to the cupboards...
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16. The box of matches may stay, a small bag
of flour, some sugar, and salt. A few
moldy potatoes, already in the garbage
can, must be hastily rescued, for they
will provide much of tonight's meal. We
will leave a handful of onions, and a dish
of dried beans.
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17. All the rest we will take away:
the meat,
the fresh vegetables,
the canned goods,
the crackers,
the candy.
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18. Now we have stripped the
house: The bathroom has been
dismantled, the running water
shut off, the electric wires
taken out. Next we take
away the house. The family
can move to the toolshed...
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19. Communication must go next. No more
newspapers,
magazines,
books-
not that they are missed, since we must take away our
families literacy as well.
Instead, in our shantytown we will allow one
radio....
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20. Now Government services must go. No more
postman,
no more firemen.
There is a school, but it is three miles away and
consists of two classrooms...
There are, of course, no hospitals or
doctors nearby. The nearest clinic is ten
miles away and is tended by a midwife. It
can be reached by bicycle which is unlikely...
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21. Finally, money. We will allow our
family a cash hoard of $5.00.
This will prevent the our breadwinner from
experiencing the tragedy of an Iranian peasant
who went blind because he could not raise the
$3.94, which he mistakenly thought he needed
to receive admission to a hospital where he
could have been cured.
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22. James 4:17 So then, if you
know the good you ought to do
and don't do it, you sin.
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23. Everyone can help someone...
hero
2 a Familiar Stranger
(God takes the way we treat others seriously?]
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24. Matthew 25:31 "When the Son of Man
comes in his glory, and all the angels with
him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32
All the nations will be gathered before
him, and he will separate the people one
from another as a shepherd separates the
sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the
sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
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25. Matthew 25:33 He will put the sheep on
his right and the goats on his left.
34 "Then the King will say to those on
his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my
Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom
prepared for you since the creation of the
world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave
me something to eat, I was thirsty and
you gave me something to drink, I was a
stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed
clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and
you looked after me, I was in prison and
you came to visit me.'
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26. Matthew 25:37 "Then the righteous
will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see
you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and
give you something to drink? 38 When
did we see you a stranger and invite you
in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39
When did we see you sick or in prison
and go to visit you?'
40 "The King will reply, 'Truly I
tell you, whatever you did for one of
the least of these brothers and sisters
of mine, you did for me.'
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27. Matthew 25:40 "The King will reply,
'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for
one of the least of these brothers and
sisters of mine, you did for me.'
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28. Everyone can help someone...
hero
3 A More Final Exam:
(We will have to give an accounting for
our resources?]
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29. Matthew 25:31 "When the Son of Man
comes in his glory, and all the angels with
him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32
All the nations will be gathered before
him, and he will separate the people one
from another as a shepherd separates the
sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the
sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
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30. “Love your neighbor as
yourself,” ~Jesus (Matt 12:37-39)
The way you love others is
the way you love God.
The way you love others is
the way you love God.
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31. Being a Hero is
1% ability
and 99% attitude.
Being a Hero is
1% ability
and 99% attitude.43Wednesday, February 4, 2009