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Social Responsibility I - Change of hearts ...

Monday, Nov 16, 2009. Often Jesus tells his disciples “you know that people act like … - but it should be different among you!” Jesus is one of the key social reformers. He had the vision of a different world, another society, a new life in the old life, changed minds and hearts which grow within the old minds and hearts.

Jesus did not come with a fixed set of rules. He did not come with a revolution by violent power or force to overrun the establishment. He did not come with a fixed set of commands about the framework of society. And yet, he came to change it all.

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Jesus idea about social change is a change coming from the hearts and minds of people. He wanted to reach all, every single one of them. He came to initiate faith - faith in God, his “father”, and faith in him. Then, with faith, people could and people would change their thoughts, their words, their actions.

Jesus did not come with an abstract agenda of social responsibility. Yet, he talks about social responsibility, but it is coming from the deep and sincere love between people. Where people love each other, they will care for each other. The care will be filled with passion and tenderness. People will be willing to invest time and money for the others - just because they love them. That is the type of social responsibility, Jesus is talking about.

Jesus did not demand social actions as a tool to reach something before God. You cannot earn your way to heaven. Social responsibility is not something which would make God more favorable or loving. God loves you anyway, he loves you deeply, with a love which ranges back to the beginning of time. But when you discover God's love, when you open your heart and mind for it, you will start to love yourself. You will start to forgive and to open your eyes for the needs of the others, in your immediate environment as well as far away. Social actions need to be driven by this kind of love, by God's love to mankind, to his people. [R.W.E.P., jesusnetwork.eu]

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