This week churches across Cabarrus County churches are joining over 1200 churches across the state of North Carolina to serve our communities in a coordinated effort called ServeNC. This week churches are helping to landscape schools, feeding teachers, first responders and other community helpers. They are handing out school supplies, visiting nursing homes, putting on sports camps, and generally blessing our neighbors.
Although it is a coordinated effort this week, blessing are neighbors is something that many churches and Christians do on a daily basis. They do it without fanfare and they do it in the name of Jesus. James 2:8 tells us “If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.”
Anybody can choose to bless their neighbors and seek to make their community better. However, a Christian has no choice. A Christian has to work to make the world a better place because of who are Heavenly Father is and what Jesus has done for us. “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” (James 1:27) As Christians we are called not only to maintain personal integrity but to help the helpless and the hopeless. We are the hands and feet of Jesus to bless others so that the gospel will be both seen and heard.
For Further Study Read Mark 12:28-34 and Luke 10:25-37
