CCDA Memphis Review: Alexia Salvatierra

Over the next days, I'm going to share pieces of notes from speakers at the 2015 National CCDA Conference in Memphis a few weeks' back.

Alexia Salvatierra

Matthew 9:35-26  Jesus looked at the crowds and had compassion on them.

Before compassion, Jesus saw.  

To be illuminated is to see the world as Jesus sees.  If you look through Jesus’s eyes, you’ll see the invisible people.  In the eyes of Jesus, we are all visible.

If you see someone only in terms of their need, you do not see them fully.  Are the invisible people in your ministry blessing YOU?

We are brothers and sisters.  We are together the body. They are also our arms...why don’t we feel the pain?  Leprosy is when you don’t feel...and you’re on the outside...could this be us?

Jesus saw the crowds.  We also need to know/see systems. We see the problem and solutions differently when we see the crowd.  

Jesus runs toward the pain.  

Heb. 12:1-2  Fix our eyes on Jesus.  What will keep us going?  The vision of the joy set before Him/us.  Joy awaits. People are not issues, they are members of our own body.