“Finally, all of you be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.” (1 Peter 3:8)
What makes you glad or sad or mad? What puts a holy smile on your face? What causes your spirit to sob uncontrollably? What makes you pound your fist on the table out of righteous indignation? Somewhere in the mixture of that gladness, sadness, and madness is your God-ordained passion. Or maybe I should say compassion, because you are feeling what God feels. And once you identify it, doing something about it isn’t optional. You can’t not do something about it.
-- Mark Batterson in “PRIMAL: A Quest for the Lost Soul of Christianity”
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