Caring, It's Not A Spectator Sport

The statistics are overwhelming and disturbing. Disasters strike randomly and with increasing frequency. The images of starving children, wounded civilians caught in the crosshairs of conflict, and violence on our streets and in our schools fill our homes in news broadcasts every evening. Unfortunately, this can lead to information overload and compassion fatigue. What’s a Christian to do?

As Christ’s followers, we can find His footprints beside hospital beds, in poverty-blighted ghettos, in...