1. A disciple cares about the needs of all people in the world.

2. Point 1:  What do you see?

3. Point 1:  What do you see?
Your Box

4. Point 1:  What do you see?
Your Box
Yourself

5. Point 1:  What do you see?
Your Box
Yourself
Your world

6. Philippians 2:4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

7. Proverbs 21:13 Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

8. Point 2: What does God want you to do
about what you see?

9. I John 3:17-18 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

10. Point 2: What does God want you to do
about what you see?
Faith is not an intellectual assent – an
agreement with a set of Christian teachings – this is incomplete.

11. James 2:14-17 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

12. Point 2: What does God want you to do
about what you see?
Faith is not an intellectual assent – an
agreement with a set of Christian teachings – this is incomplete.
True faith transforms our conduct as well as our thoughts. If our life remains unchanged, we don’t truly believe the truths we claim to believe.

13. Point 3: Will you do it?

14. Point 3: Will you do it?
a. Compassion will interrupt your plans!

15. Point 3: Will you do it? a. Compassion will interrupt your plans!
b. Compassion will cost you – likely a lot!

16. Point 3: Will you do it? a. Compassion will interrupt your plans!
b. Compassion will cost you – likely a lot!
c.  Compassion will change lives!