“When Jesus heard about it, he withdrew from there by boat to a remote place to be alone. When the crowds heard this, they followed him on foot from the towns. When he went ashore, he saw a large crowd, had compassion on them, and healed their sick.” (CSB – Read the chapter)
A devastating hurricane recently smashed its way through my region. The impact on my own community was barely noticeable. We endured a few hours without power and some water seeping in the basement of the church building. A couple of hours west of here, though, was not nearly so fortunate. I recently heard a colleague who did mission work in Libya during and in the aftermath of their civil war say that if you took away the guns and the violence, the worst affected areas look very much like a war zone. To say the response to send and bring relief and help has been overwhelming would be an understatement. One disaster relief organization quickly mobilized to have 2,000 beds available for volunteers to help with the recovery effort and has found themselves having to manage 20,000 applications to help. And the vast majority of this response has come from Christians. Why do followers of Jesus do this in a way that goes so very far beyond what the adherents of any other worldview do?
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The Nexus 