Would you like to change the world?

This week we are starting a new series called “ImpACT”.  Impact is our outreach strategy at North Point to fight four global giants: Disease - Poverty - Illiteracy - Spiritual Emptiness.  I believe that if we will all work together, as a church, we can make a global and local difference.  It is time for the church to become known for caring about things like social justice issues.  We have been on the bench for far too long. It is our God given calling to be activists for the issues that heaven cares about.  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said something that,  when I close my eyes and think about it, haunts me.

     “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

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1. Robert and Marschel Cowan says:

   October 26th, 2009

   Reminds me of another of my favorite quotes although I can not find the Author:::

   The only thing neccessary for evil to conquer…is for…good men to do nothing!!!!!

2. Ted Anthony says:

   October 26th, 2009

   Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after ophans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being palluted by the world. James 1:27

3. Kimberly Crowley says:

   October 26th, 2009

   A friend sent a quote via facebook that really hit home with me.
   “I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.” - Lily Tomlin.

   In retrospect, the most profound changes I personally have witnessed in my time as a christian have grown from rather insignificant beginnings. Usually when I’m not dwelling on the grand “gesture” of giving or outreach. The more I think about it, He really always seems to work with remnants and rubble….small insignificant things and people….

   Zech 5:10 Does anyone dare despise this day of small beginnings? They’ll change their tune when they see Zerubbabel setting the last stone in place! (temple rebuilt)” (message ver)

   So that’s been my re-focus…change my corner of the world. I started with cleaning toilets at the Kitchen and we’ll just go from there!!!!

4. Ray Kelejian says:

   October 26th, 2009

   Change one thing in the world…I would have to say I would like to have a world without HATE. Imagine how much ugliness in the world would cease to exist without HATE…Think about it

5. Rachel says:

   October 26th, 2009

   I have been thinking a lot about change lately. I was just talking the other day with a friend of mine about how people expect change. People expect change to come from one person or a group of people. The president, congress, the courts…. People think I helped nominate this person or I voted for this so now things should change. What we fail to realize though is that yes we may have initiated some sort of change with a vote, a gesture, whatever… but we have to BE the change we want to see. We have to stop worrying about the insignificants in life and step up to the plate, put ourselves out open up and be the change. We get caught up in our own lives and problems and forget the big picture that involves everyone, not just ourselves or our immediate family. I recently helped out at the convoy of hope make a difference day. I gave a service that I could give which was cutting hair, to make a difference to peoples lives. I am poor, I cannot always afford the things that my kids need, my kids dont get to do the extra carricular activities… however that didnt stop me from putting myself out to help others. I understood where they were in life and I wanted them to know that someone cared. So despite our own problems, despite our own needs we have to remember that to get ourselves in a different place in life we have to be that change that we want.

6. Sandra Anderson says:

   October 27th, 2009

   In a time of need the silence of friends can be deafening.

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