Go to a /l/lission Meeting continued
Y ou’re on your way to take part in a mission meeting with your church group. It’s early evening, and the neighborhood is not familiar to you. Some call it skid row. It’s the lower end of town, the other side of the tracks. Call it what you will, it’s there—in most towns—and espe cially in the larger cities. Civic leaders sometimes talk about this sec tion of town, and discuss the prob lems of its inhabitants. But usually little is done about it. You don’t like it. It makes you feel a little uncomfortable just walking along the sidewalk. Dingy, unkempt
stores line the street, and equally un kempt men, and a few women, shuf fle alongside of you. Others are sit ting at the curb or huddled in door ways. You notice one man raise a bottle to his lips, and the one next to him coughs loudly and slumps over as though he were in pain. You wonder about them. You won der just what they’re thinking about, or if they’re thinking at all. You wonder what brought them here, and even more important what it will take to get them out. You know the gospel is the answer. You remember reading somewhere of how diseased,
liquor-bound men and women stum ble into a mission, hear the preaching of the Word, and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour. Their lives are transformed—they are new creatures in Christ. They have a chance to take their rightful place in society once again. You believe it can happen. You wonder if it will tonight. You’re met at the door of the mission by the mission director. You thank God for men like him, and for their service of love to those who are unlovely. As you enter the mis sion, you’re almost surprised to see
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