title person hospitality
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Word evidence 3. treat people
(Mark 4:11)
June 20, 2010 Youth group dedication service
Seo Gwang-ho's brother
If so, what does it mean to say that people are treated as people? Have any of you ever felt that you were not being 'treated as a person' by someone or a group? If you have not actually experienced it, you will not be able to fully understand what it means to be 'not treated as a person'. Because it is as if you are living by breathing air, but living unaware of the existence of air, you are always and everywhere receiving 'personal treatment' and 'noble hospitality', but the form is like air, so you are not conscious because you are living. For this reason, it may be no wonder that people of crabs do not fully understand what it means to be 'treated as a human being'. To explain to these people what 'treating people' is, I think the easiest way is to introduce cases where 'treating people' is not possible.
When you enter a restaurant to eat, you are asked 'why did you come?' When you are shopping and choosing things, when you stare at them with the eyes of wanting you to go somewhere else quickly, putting aside the solicitation, hide your disability and apply for a job I managed to pass the document screening and go to the interview, and the interviewer asked only my personal history in a sarcastic tone, went to school to enroll my child, but was rejected by the school for no reason, and even when my brother or sister was getting married. , was banned from attending because it was a shame of their family, and even though they were having pure sexual relations with young people at church, they received a recommendation from the church rather than a recommendation to ban it if the other person is a disabled person. It is a story, and never added or subtracted. As such, although 'treating people' is the most basic principle to be observed in the relationship between people and people, groups and people, only the disabled are exceptions everywhere, including the church.
Personally, since I came to Saegil Church, I hated hearing criticism of the Korean church during sermons, but when I started preaching, I was forced to talk about the so-called Korean church (?).
There are very few people with disabilities in Korean churches. There are about 4 million people with disabilities in Korea, and it is said that the total Christian population in Korea is about 20% of the total population. The source of this statistic is Naver intellectuals, so it may not be an accurate statistic, but if we deduce the number of disabled Christians based on this, we can conclude that there are 800,000 people. But you don't see many of these disabled people in the church. People who were socially ostracized, such as the sick and disabled, who were treated as sinners at the time, always followed Jesus around him, and Jesus never rejected them, but rather became close to them. However, the churches and members who claim to be followers of Jesus do not treat them as the same person, but are far from them. Some megachurches say that they care for the disabled, and they are kind enough to set aside a time and place for worship only with the disabled. I think this is because they see disabled people as 'disabled people' who are different from them, not the same person. We must realize that this is in no way consistent with the spirit of Jesus, and that it cannot truly be a desirable church community for the disabled.
The 'hospitable people' I talked about today starts with small things, not big things. When we worship in the same place, eat at the same table, travel together, ask for help from anyone, and receive that help willingly, the kingdom of God will be achieved where everyone is treated like a human being and lives like human beings. I say it carefully.
Today's sermon topic was reconciliation. I think this is reconciliation. Thank you.