Compassion in Action

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“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Mark 12:30-31

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Mark 12:30-31 “Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.”

Heb. 10:23, 24

Hearts and Hands full of Grace

11 “What are all your sacrifices to Me?” asks the LORD… 13 Stop bringing useless offerings… 16    Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight… 17 Learn to do what is good. Seek justice. Correct the

oppressor. Defend the rights of the fatherless. Plead the widow’s cause.” Isaiah 1

“When the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, “Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners?” But when Jesus heard this, He said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. “But go and learn what this means: ‘I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,’ for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matt. 9:11-13

”We can sometimes engage in educating ourselves as an end in itself – a form of gluttony – consuming more and more resources, but not translating them into action on behalf of any of the real neighbors in our world”

- Jim Martin, The Just Church

“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.” James 1:27

“Be merciful just as your heavenly Father is merciful”

Luke 6:36

What is Compassion?

What is Compassion?

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What is Compassion?

What is Compassion?

“Compassion” represents both the deep emotion aroused by another person's suffering, and the concrete action taken to relieve their suffering.

eleos: compassion, mercy, pity splagxnizomai: to be moved

in the inward parts

“Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.”

Hebrews 13:1-3

An Attitude of Kinship

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”

2 Corinthians 1:3-4

“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for one another. If any one of you has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in you? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. ... We love because he first loved us.”

1 John 3:16-18; 4:19