REFLECT AND RESPOND

In helping others locally, what other churches or organisations can you work with in your community?

Read Mark 12:41–44. How much pressure do we place on ourselves to measure giving with numbers?

Read the chorus to ‘Jesus, with What Gladness I Can Truly Sing’ (SASB 597). How can you offer your life, time and talents to God?

personal response does not require an individualistic, non-collaborative response? Quite the contrary: as you pray for guidance, what other families or friends within your community are wanting to make a genuine, outwardfacing response and support others during this cost of living crisis? Is it possible that God is calling you to be the glue that pulls together several individuals or groups to make a unified response in your community?

Responding to any social emergency or crisis is best done in tandem – at a minimum – and at best as an informed and unified collective partnership.

Challenging as the fierce troubles might be, such biblical collaboration can have a potent impact regardless of the situation. Take courage, pray and have an open heart.

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Ted Brooks

Herald, Shiremoor