Fish Are Friends, Not Food

#015 clownfish by Flickr User Nemo’s Great Uncle

This line of the movie Finding Nemo is a great principle for us to remember when it comes to people. As we work in our churches and neighborhoods to advance the Gospel, we would do well to recite, “People are friends, not projects.” By authentically engaging people and caring about who they are as people made in the image of God, we build up relational trust and give room for the Spirit to work. Then, when they are faced with times of crisis, they come to us as friends genuinely cared for, not hesitantly as a project to be ‘fixed.’

 

(via Justin Hiebert’s Empowering Missional Blog)

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