Bullets for the Battle

The Bullet of Compassion: A Modern Day Good Samaritan?

Have you heard the true story of an experiment a small band of seminary students carried out on the fellow members of their class? The class was given an assignment on Luke 10:30-37, the familiar account of the Good Samaritan. The assignment was due the next day. Most of the men in the class traveled along the same pathway leading to the classroom the next morning. One of the seminarians wore old, torn clothing, disguised himself as though he had been beaten and bruised and placed himself along the path, clearly in view of all the young students making their way back to class. With their assignments neatly written, carefully documented and tucked under their arms, not one seminarian so much as paused to come to his assistance or wipe the catsup off his neck and chest.

Intellectually, the assignment on love and caring was completed. But personally had they really learned the lesson Jesus was teaching in Luke 10? Well, you decide. What’s happening? How can we explain the gross lack of involvement in other people’s lives? We well-taught Christians know (intellectually) Bible truth, but why are there so few “ministers”? Why so little application of truth we’ve “known” for years?