The Gutter

I just finished reading "The Gutter" by Craig Gross. Let me quote from the ending of the book:

"So often pastors or professional speakers can say all the right things and have three-point sermons that sound great, but the Bible should compel you past words and into action. Jesus' words are not meant just to be read once a week, or heard on Sunday morning. Jesus spent little time actually speaking; He was mostly involved in doing.

Too often we sit through church, and when it's over, we think we're done with our work for the week. That is wrong, wrong, wrong. You cannot live out your faith based solely on what other people tell you; you cannot be okay with merely consuming information. You must be convicted to take action for God."

So what is your action? The gutter you are called to may be different than mine. It may look totally different in how you approach it. You may have different skeptics and different people telling you that you can't do it that way. The gutter we go to isn't the main point. The point is that we take Jesus' love there. Are we going to do something or are we content to sit on the sidelines and be critics? Being a critic is easy. It doesn't involve any effort or risk. Also it doesn't look much like Jesus. Bottom line - go and do something!