In his book, The Samaritan Way: Lifestyle Compassion Ministry, David Crocker talks about barriers to lifestyle compassion ministry:
“The biggest barrier to lifestyle compassion ministry is a self-centered attitude. That goes for churches and for individual believers. This is the attitude that says: It is about us.
I find that many church folk really do believe it’s about them. They believe the church is there to serve them—to provide child care for their little ones, to educate their children in spiritual matters, to provide safe, so-attractive-that-their-teenagers-will-beg-to-come activities for their teens, to marry their young and bury their dead, to give them their weekly spiritual ‘fix’ on Sundays, and so forth. And as long as this attitude prevails, there is little hope that many will develop lifestyle ministry, especially lifestyle compassion ministry for persons outside the church.” [47]
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