The following is an excerpt from an online response article that will appear next month at www.immersejournal.com.
It was a warm July evening during the summer of 2004. I was playing the role of "adult leader" at a high school mission trip in Toronto. The day before we had distributed sack lunches to some of the homeless people in the city. It made me aware of all the homeless people around us as we shopped the downtown area of the city that evening. I found myself in my own little self-righteous world, wishing that I had food to give "these people."
I was suddenly pulled out of my thoughts when I heard a gruff but sincere "God bless you!" My confusion must have been easily noticeable because a female student in my group looked at me and said "I smiled at him." Somewhere along the way, this chain smoking, emotionally needy, train wreck of a high school student had realized something that I had apparently forgotten. Through her, I was reminded that the good news of Christ is bigger than just filling empty stomach.
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