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What Will You Do?

Posted by Chris Case | June 12, 2008 .

We’ve been playing the blame game since the Garden of Eden.  Whenever something goes wrong, there’s always someone else to blame.  So much of that plays into our problem solving.  Although getting to the root of a problem is obviously beneficial, spending time deciphering what the root is without any action leads to ineffective problem solving.

When dealing with questions about hunger and poverty in the world, particularly overseas, so much time is spent figuring out who is to blame, whether the American government has poor economic practices overseas, whether it is just their governments who have wronged them or their economically deficient practices as a culture.  People can wax poetic about the issues of global crisis.  I know I’ve personally read tons of blogs on the subject.

I recently had a conversation with my friend Jeremy as he was trying to prepare a sermon on James 4.13-5.6.  We were talking about the question of who was to blame for some of the global crises.  We discussed some of the roles America has played amongst other possible root causes, but then it dawned on my to bring up a point.  Jesus seemed to care little about who caused the poverty and sickness around him… he only asked his followers what they were going to do about it.  The Jews were blaming the Romans or their own poor leadership for the problems, the Romans were controlling the Jews because they probably saw them as a problem, and you have the Zealots and others out their blaming different establishments for all the issues of the world.  Yet Jesus came and said… do something about the poor or the disenfranchised.  Don’t wait in the wings and point fingers.  We are to care.

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