Running A Risk To Offer A Cure
[The Pharisees] asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”.
Mark 2:16
A child hovers between life and death as anxious parents wait. The physician is called but refuses to come. “I’m sorry,” the doctor explains, “but I don’t make house calls.”
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Ridiculous? Perhaps. But consider this. What if the Great Physician had been unwilling to make a “house call” to planet Earth?
Christ’s life calls you to minister to people who may never have visited your church—and possibly never will.
His example calls you to rub shoulders with people who are lost, sick, without hope.
G. Campbell Morgan presses home the importance of making “house calls.”
WALK WITH G. CAMPBELL MORGAN
“I believe one of the reasons for the condition of the church is the aloofness of Christians from sinning men and women.
“We still build our sanctuaries, set up our standards, make our arrangements, and say to the sinning ones: ‘If you come to us, we will help you!’
“But the way of the Lord is to go and sit where they sit, without looking down on them.
“We may run great risks if we will dare to do it because someone will say that we are consorting with sinning men, and that we are in moral and spiritual peril. I am afraid, however, that the church is not often criticized for this.”
WALK CLOSER TO GOD
A doctor takes personal risks when he tends the sick. But they need his help.
You have what the world needs—the good news of sins forgiven.
But it’s good news to them only if they’ve heard it. It’s the cure only if they know they are terminally ill.
House calls may be a thing of the past for family doctors. But in God’s program they are never out of date.
Make one, and you’ll find out why!
