Methodist News Connect-002
Methodist News Connect-002 - Winter 2019
Methodist News Connect-002 - Winter 2019
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SOCIAL THEOLOGY<br />
GOD NEXT DOOR:<br />
Social Concern for Our Neighbour and for<br />
Those Overseas<br />
Social concern is sometimes<br />
associated with helping with natural<br />
disasters, orphanage sponsorships,<br />
overseas medical missions,<br />
and the like. But is that<br />
what social concern is all about?<br />
There was a story about two<br />
Christians who lived in the same<br />
neighbourhood.<br />
John had a big heart for social<br />
concerns. He felt a burden for<br />
those suffering from leprosy in<br />
India and planned to go to there<br />
to help them. One day, as he was<br />
watering his garden, he began<br />
speaking to his neighbour, who<br />
was recently diagnosed with a<br />
prostate cancer. John expressed<br />
his sympathy and continued to<br />
make plans to go to India. He<br />
started to learn the necessary<br />
language and did all he could to<br />
prepare. Occasionally, he would<br />
pass by his neighbour and see his<br />
health deteriorating, but John was<br />
determined to go to India.<br />
In the same suburb was Tim. He<br />
heard through the church that another<br />
man was ill with throat cancer.<br />
He knocked on the door of<br />
the stranger and asked if he could<br />
help. Each day, he came and<br />
washed the man. The stranger’s<br />
family was not from the Christian<br />
background. They were touched<br />
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