tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9827454.post111680925068208621..comments2023-10-23T12:23:54.134-05:00Comments on Larry James' Urban Daily: Bobby, Me and JesusLarry Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124477733714017000noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9827454.post-1116951837664681742005-05-24T11:23:00.000-05:002005-05-24T11:23:00.000-05:00Charles, do I ever hear you now! You ask all the ...Charles, do I ever hear you now! You ask all the right questions. The "rub" is in working them out in our lives. I certainly don't have them mastered or understood at all. But it is just refreshing to find people who are brave enough to at least struggle honestly.Larry Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06124477733714017000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9827454.post-1116951027802109422005-05-24T11:10:00.000-05:002005-05-24T11:10:00.000-05:00Good word, Neal. I see, feel, hear and know Jesus...Good word, Neal. I see, feel, hear and know Jesus in your life nad heart. You live truth. I also expect you need no seminar to know how to communicate with and worship your Lord. Funny how that works, isn't it?Larry Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06124477733714017000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9827454.post-1116950548936667422005-05-24T11:02:00.000-05:002005-05-24T11:02:00.000-05:00Thanks for sharing your heart and your frustration...Thanks for sharing your heart and your frustration...the plight of Bobby weighs on my heart, too...sometimes I just feel so helpless that I ignore it. When I ministered in a small city in TX, I asked and recieved permission to begin a outreach ministry to the poor neighborhood that surrounded the church. I was totally out of my league, but we did a fair job of providing food, clothes, furniture, etc to the immediate vicinity around our building. For 12 months. Then I was told to shut it down because that was not the "demographic we want to reach." It's so easy to see the disadvantaged as a burden. Even now, at a great, compassionate church...my family and I live in a rental in the "bad" part of town. My church members keep begging me to move my girls to a better neighborhood. But I like my neighbors...sure, most of the don't speak English well...some of them are disabled...but they love their families too. They treat us well. They work hard. But they are the least. Just this week someone who I barely (yet who would be shunned by many people on appearance alone) know gave my wife a key to her basement "just in case there's a tornado" (we live in KS) and she knew we had no basement. That wouldn't happen in a "good" neighborhood.Nealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02212617002044684403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9827454.post-1116945582362250702005-05-24T09:39:00.000-05:002005-05-24T09:39:00.000-05:00What are the right and respectable answers? Why i...What are the right and respectable answers? Why is it OK for me to own a house and a car and spend my days pretty much making people richer than me even richer when people need so much to survive, both physically and spiritually? Why do church money management classes teach that it's OK to take on debt to buy a home because it appreciates in value, but not in order to meet the needs of others? I hope I'm not sounding sarcastic - I'm really wrestling with these and have enjoyed the stimulation of your posts (if not always the paths they're pointing me down).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08279077111112195273noreply@blogger.com