Why aren't we reaching?

Friday after work and stopping at the church shortly I drove onto the Richardson Highway to head home.  Right as I got off the entrance ramp there at 5th ave I saw a man hitch-hiking.  I have picked up hitch-hikers in the past, but not often.  This time was different I felt an urging in my spirit to stop for this man.  I stopped asked where he was headed (down to moose creek) and I drove him to the Bathing Beauty pond right near where I live.  The whole ten miles this man talked, I'm not sure about what because I had the windows down in my car and he wasn't speaking loud enough, but I gathered he was here for work, and was up here from Anchorage longer than he expected so he decided to go visit friends down in Moose Creek.

Well upon getting out the man said to me that I would be in his prayers tonight.  He then said "I really mean it, I believe in that sort of thing."  I replied with he will be in mine and I do too, I'm a pastor.  I don't like to publize that all the time, but I felt it right at the moment.  When I said that the man stopped talking and his jaw just about hit the ground, and for the first time since I picked him up he was speechless.  Now this leads me to a question why was he so speechless.  Aren't we supposed to be helping, supposed to be God's hands and feet here on earth?  If we (as Christians, at the church however you want to call it)  are the body of Christ why is it that when we show compassion and love to people that instead of being accustom to the kind person being a Christian they are surprised?

Jesus took time to talk with people.  He took time to share and love everyone, even the sick, poor and young.  The people that were considered nothing in society Jesus spent the most time with.  Herod only got to see Jesus when he was on trial--not when He was preforming miracles.  Jesus told the story about the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37 and the majority of the church treats the sick and poor like the men before the Samaritan.  We don't have the time.  We have to be somewhere important, but is this always the case, is this really the case the majority of the time.  Why don't we trust in God to protect us against what may happen and let the light of Jesus shine through us.

Casting Crowns has a song: "If We Are the Body" Check it out, then I challenge you to show the Way, show His Love for the downcast and brokenhearted.  Let's be the body of Christ, the way He showed us to be!  Let's touch the untouchable, lets heal the sick, lets give water to the thirsty and feed those who are hungry and offer rides to those who don't have them.  Let's be the body!