"...If we have no compassion for the lost, it is simply because we are not looking. We are averting our eyes. We tend to focus on our own easily “overwhelming” needs-which all-you-can-eat buffet to go to, or when are soccer sign-ups, or a new car, or better seating arrangement for our church, or...
The unreached lay bleeding in a field without any to care for them. The lost and the needy lay beaten by demonic thugs along this road of life...Satan’s mission is clear: to steal, kill and destroy.
Is your mission clear? We must not pass them by. We must not find religious justification to turn our head. We must spend our energy, our resources, and rescue the perishing.
“And Jesus said to him, ‘Go and do likewise.’”
The rest of the article called "Does Need Constitute a Call?" at
http://www.heartofgod.com/Frontlines1/Issue22/NeedConstitue.asp