[weblog] truly vintage

a few weeks ago I was getting gas somewhere and this man walked up and said he was out of gas and was trying to get home and asked if I could spare a few bucks. I had a five dollar bill in my wallet, I told him I didn’t have anything.
As I look back now I realize that when Jesus said “what you do for the least of these you to for(to) me” he meant that man who asked me for a few bucks to get just enough gas to get home.

I think about southern culture and how prideful we are and how difficult it is to ask for anything. It is such a humbling and almost degrading (in our eyes) experience to come up to a stranger and say “I am flat broke and I am in need, can you help me?” I know I have just struggled through things just because I was afraid to ask, and this man worked up the courage and asked me for what I could have easily given. I lied to him.

How often do we pretend “turn the other cheek” means hide your face from those in need?
What are we going to do to make sure what we say we believe and what we actually do are consistant?

Challenge: by Februray 11th buy someone’s meal who you have never met in your entire life. We have a few weeks to get this done. And yes, if you are reading this and call yourself Christian then I expect you to do it as well. Heck, I double-dog dare you!