What Made Bobby Run
This Week's Theme: Faith in the Community
Gordon MacDonald
Sunday, April 8, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: [W]hat is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18b).
Bonus Reading:2 Cor. 11:23-27
On a hot Spring day in 1968, Bobby Kennedy, fighting for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, crisscrossed streets in some of the poorest neighborhoods in Spanish Harlem. After five hours, Lester and Irene David write in Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Folk Hero, Kennedy was caked with dirt and soaked in perspiration. His guide that day was former boxing champion Jose Torres.
"Torres wondered why the rich man's son came to the ghettoes and worked so hard and long, often 16 hours a day. At the car, Torres asked, 'Why are you doing this? Why are you running?'
"Bobby replied in a very low voice, 'Because I found out that my world wasn't the real world.'"
It has to be said that the church and the fenced-in ground of the religious organization or program are not the real world either. The forging of faith may be taught there, but Christ wants to lead us to implement our faith beyond the ground of the religious, out in places that often seem strange or frightening.
Gordon MacDonald in Forging a Real-World Faith
Jesus, you came into this world to love people. Help me to love others with the love You gave me.
Adapted from: Forging a Real-World Faith (Nelson, 1989). 1 of 1
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Jesus, you came into this world to love people. Help me to love others with the love You gave me.
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