Are you one bit bothered?

Luke 11: 7

"Then the one inside answers, 'Don't bother me. The door is already locked, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give you anything.”

Jesus was teaching on prayer one day, and He used this illustration.

A man actually came to a neighbor, looking for bread to feed a friend who was traveling through his city.

The person was already in bed, and said and I quote…. “Don’t bother me....I can’t get up and give you anything!”

During Adult Sunday school in church yesterday, we had a great conversation about Missions and about making disciples.

So it begs the question… Are we one bit bothered that 57% of all Americans don’t go to church at all during the year?

Are we one bit bothered that there are more people below the poverty level in India, than live in the US?

Does it bother us that over 2/3^rds of the rest of the world, live on $2.00 per day or less?

Somehow I have to believe, that if it really bothered us, we’d find a way to do something about the problem.

And yet we think that by taking the attitude that it’s someone else’s problem, we think God will be OK with that.

Seriously church friends, do we really understand that most American cats and dogs eat better than most of the poorest people in the world?

Are we really OK with that? And if we are, isn’t that then our collective attitude….. “Don’t bother me!”

If it is, then as frank as I can be—that really bothers me.

What will bother you so much this week, that you’ll rise to the challenge, to make a difference?

The old time comic, W.C. Fields used to say….. “Go away Kid, ya bother me—ya bother me…”

By not being involved, isn’t that what we’re sometimes saying