Chris, the director of the Hope Center was talking about the neighborhood around the Hope Center. He called it a "forgotten zone", and relayed some heart breaking news about the environment there. And then he made an amazingly important statement:
"The world that they see out there is so completely different from what w are trying to teach them - you can't counteract that in a couple hours a week."
That statement is so true - not just in the "forgotten zone" of the Hope Center, but in the neighborhoods I live in as well. Affluence doesn't make the need for a counteractive investment any less. Helping each other to know and follow Jesus takes an investment of more than a couple hours a week - in our own lives, in the lives of others, in our time with God alone, and our time with God together.
Lord help me to be the kind of leader who invests deeply in the lives of others and lives so authentically that others may invest in me as well.
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