Friday review

So much goes into a day here that it's tough to give a blog summary.

JP's Bible Study in the morning was again compelling. About justice being God's deep motivation for redemption. Unable to stand for sin, our Holy God asked the question, "how can I be true and just and yet deal with and get rid of the problem of sin?" Of course, the answer is Jesus, and we must continue to confess our sin to God and others so that we can be restored through Jesus and free to be used as God would like to use us.

Bart Campolo was our first speaker in the evening. He was gut honest and very strong in story and speech. In a nutshell, he spoke about how so very often in this walk of love and justice, we will walk with people who won't change. We can't fix and help so many....but there's nobody we can't love.

Alexias Salvatierra, an activist for economic justice in southern CA spoke eloquently about compassion and solidarity. She advocates often for immigrants in the USA, and she had some words that stuck...

Compassion means to "feel with". But before we can have compassion, we have to SEE people. It's not that we have compassion fatigue, it's that we don't have vision. We don't see because we don't have the courage to see.

She spoke about how it's not that we're not connected, it's that we already ARE family....we are connected in our human experience, and we need to live in the truth of that connection.

I bought the dvd of tonight, as the whole evening was very powerful.