Fair Share

It’s Not Fair

It’s not fair when someone else wins the church raffle and you particularly wanted that prize. It’s not fair when your best friend wins the heart of your secret heartthrob, especially as you were about to make your pitch for them. It’s not fair when you lose at a board game when you know, and everyone knows, you should have won.

Life’s not fair.

It’s not fair that some have food and others don’t. It’s not fair that some have good water, yet some don’t. It’s not fair that some have medical aid close by but some have to walk 20 miles just to see a nurse. It’s not fair that some have a home while others don’t. It’s not fair when whole communities get wiped off the map by war, or natural disaster, or religious sectarianism, or whatever.

I’ll tell you what’s truly not fair.

What is really, totally, completely, and to our shame, disobediently unfair is that we keep the news of Jesus and His Gospel to ourselves. Here in the West, we keep Jesus as a social club. He is a common interest, a focal point for our small and, usually self indulgent, amity groups. There is no revival; no real renewal; no real evangelism in the Western church. Sure the Western church has wonderful evangelists working overseas but not on home soil. Until recently when a young zealot called Nathan Morris burst on the scene.

On the other hand, China, Africa, India, South America, and other places where poverty is more prevalent than prosperity, there is revival. There is rampant renewal, and healing, as well as rampant persecution. It appears to me that, where there is persecution, there too is revival.

Penn Jillette, a very well known entertainer and an atheist put it this way on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhG-tkQ_Q2w Take 5 minutes to watch it and be amazed at his honesty. (Skip the advert at the beginning)

How much do we hate unsaved folk that we don’t share the Gospel with them? Does our faith, here in the West, really mean so little to us that we don’t share it – even with our closest or wider family?