Conversation Starters

╬  Western culture has been thoroughly Christianized for so many centuries that concerns for the homeless, the indigent, and the elderly have long been institutionalized. When you think of the “lowly” today in your community, whom or what comes to mind? Are they being overlooked? What is it that they need the most? How is God asking you to give love to the lowly? 

╬  Jesus says that all who desire to enter the Kingdom must come to it like a little child — "for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” This is shocking language for an educated and accomplished people. Look at your life, attitudes, and actions. Are the Kingdom requirements of humility, dependence, weakness, and trust centerstage for you? The gifts of confession, forgiveness, and beginning again are always ours in Christ Jesus.