4Ü #289

Seeing and feeling

9 August 2007

WASSUP - To turn a blind eye
INSIGHT OUT - Seeing and feeling
OUTSIGHT IN - Now that I have seen
SEE YA SUNDAY - Love your neighbour - to see or not to see?
LAST WORD - Your own safety is at stake

WASSUP - To turn a blind eye

How convenient it is to turn the blind eye?
It's worse than blindness because it is a choice, a refusal to see.
An inconvenient truth whose existence will go away if you can't see it.

Go on, open your eye and take a peek
This truth just may set you free

Andrew

INSIGHT OUT - Seeing and feeling

When he saw the man's condition, his heart went out to him
Luke 10:33

It's one thing to see, it's another to feel, but when you see and feel things begin to happen.

If by now you've gone to see Amazing Grace, you will have "seen", but how easy it would be to say, "thank God that slavery has been abolished!"

But wait just a minute! Child slavery is alive and well.

It is estimated that two million children are enslaved in the global commercial sex trade. Many of these children are either sold into prostitution to pay off family debts or forcibly recruited on the street to work in brothels, where they are required to have sex with as many as 30 men each day. Some prostituted children are just 5 years old.

A child's life depends on you today. If only you could set them free?

You can read on ...

OUTSIGHT IN - Now that I have seen

Albertine (Album Version)

I am sitting still
I think of Angelique
Her mother's voice over me
And the bullets in the wall where it fell silent

And on a thousandth hill
I think of Albertine
There in her eyes what I don't see
With my own

Rwanda

CHORUS
Now that I have seen
I am responsible
Faith without deeds is dead
Now that I have held you
In my own arms
I cannot let go `til you are

I am on a plane
Across a distant sea
But I carry you in me
And in the dust on, the dust on my feet

Rwanda

CHORUS

Bridge
And I'll tell the world
I will tell them where I've been
I will keep my word
I will tell them, Albertine

CHORUS

I am on a stage
A thousand eyes on me
I will tell them, Albertine
I will tell them, Albertine

What is it that you need to see?

SEE YA SUNDAY - Love your neighbour: To see or not to see?

You simply can't read the Parable of the Good Samaritan and remain unmoved. It calls for action not platitudes.

Who needs a neighbour?

8.30 & 10.30 Love you Neighbour

Sunday evening service this week

Can't wait ... see ya Sunday

Thanks for this time to chat.

Andrew

St Columba
Where Life and Faith Meet
andrew.norton@stcolumba.org.nz

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LAST WORD - Your own safety is at stake

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbour's wall is ablaze.
Horace