Active helpfulness means individuals will come to know enough about one another to become significantly involved in each other’s lives. It challenges the culture’s assumptions of individual rights and private space in order to participate in God’s work of bringing wholeness to relationships and healing to communities… Communal patterns of active helpfulness require frequent and sustained interaction.
- Dale A. Ziemer
Scripture:
• Spend some time slowly reading and meditating on Philippians 2:1-4
Reflection
• How can we be helpful if we do not spend enough time to come to know one another?
Practice:
Begin to listen deeply to the hurts and needs of those you do community with and those in your neighborhood. Prayerfully ask God to reveal needs that you can help with. Does a family need a meal delivered to them because of the busyness of their circumstances? Does someone who is ill or injured need the lawn mowed? Figure out the need and act on it.
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