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2. MARTIN RICHARD LU LINGZI KRYSTLE CAMPBELL SEAN COLLIER

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5. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev captured for Boston bombings

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7. Matthew 9:35 – 10:1 35 Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

8. Matthew 9:35 – 10:1 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” 10:1 Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.

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10. What brings out our compassion? Pain and Suffering from: sickness, injury deprivation, disaster grief, abuse, a broken heart being lost, alone, without hope

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12. How Jesus lived compassion: Mark 1:41 – healed a leper Luke 7:13 – raised a widow’s son Matthew 14:14 – healed and taught Matthew 15:32 – fed the crowd Matthew 20:34 – healed 2 blind men

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14. Is compassion a momentary feeling or a motivating force?

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16. How Jesus taught compassion: Luke 10:33 – The Good Samaritan risks his safety and his wealth to help a stranger Luke 15:20 – The Prodigal Son’s Father runs out to welcome the shamed and broken son Matthew 18:27 – The Master cancels the servant’s impossible debt

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18. Your Compassion Inventory: What situations bring out feelings of compassion in me? In what circumstances would Christ want me to feel more compassion? What actions have I taken when moved by compassion?

19. Your Compassion Worksheet: Think of a circumstance in which you have felt compassion? What options are there for acting on that and blessing another? What is one step you can take to allow your feelings to motivate you to action?

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21. Possible actions you can take: Sharing Praying Giving Healing Hugging Listening Feeding Teaching Going ………….

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23. Why don’t we help? Selfishness Don’t know how Afraid to get involved Overwhelmed Judge the other as not worthy We never see the true need

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25. Matthew 25:34-36 The King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.”

26. Matthew 25:40, 45 The King will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” … The King will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.”

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28. a momentary feeling or a motivating force? Why did God give us the capacity to feel compassion?

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