Minister’s Corner: What’s your view of the unsaved?

Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.” It is obvious that this is how Jesus wants us to view the unsaved, the cases that walked by our church doors. Let’s face it, society today is different than it was when a lot of us were growing up. It used to be that most people shared a kind of “Judeo-Christian” heritage. Whether Christian or not, most people had a basic agreement about moral standards. That is no longer true. It’s not that most people in our society have rejected Christian values, many of them don’t even understand what Christian values are.
So let me give you a reminder. Sinners tend to sin and sin always gets ugly. It messes people up. So stop and think for a minute. How do you view the people around you who don’t share your values, tastes and opinions? Do you feel irritated: “They ought to know better!” Do you go a step further and get angry? Or do you go even further than that and condemn them?
Jesus did not see the people around Him as evil and disgusting. Instead, He saw them as weak, sick and in need of care. And Jesus described the cure when He told the Pharisees, “Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’” (Matthew 9:13 KJV)