Comments on: Wess Wrote an Op-Ed Piece http://blog.compassion.com/op-ed/ Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mike Stephens http://blog.compassion.com/op-ed/comment-page-1/#comment-6383 Mike Stephens Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:53:35 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=789#comment-6383 It is often difficult to see who is really suffering when it is not me!!! I am thankful Compassion has helped open my eyes a little!!! It is often difficult to see who is really suffering when it is not me!!! I am thankful Compassion has helped open my eyes a little!!!

]]> By: Mike Rayson http://blog.compassion.com/op-ed/comment-page-1/#comment-3864 Mike Rayson Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:16:06 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=789#comment-3864 We live in a capitalist society - no escaping from that fact. But because we're not satisfied with a free market economy and everything we could ever want or hope to have, we become greedy. Preachers proclaim that God wants us to have more money more money more money. Banks offer unsustainable low interest rates and high risk loans to people who cannot afford to service their debt. And it all keeps building and building and building until 'wham'. Welcome to the economic crisis. John Wesley had some simple rules to follow for sustainable Christian living - 2 of them were 'do no harm' and 'do all the good'. Well, the USA and other western countries have failed on both counts miserably, because of our greed! We have harmed - we have not done 'all the good'. So - what now? In the words of another compassion artist - "who will save the children". Start by sponsoring another child! Mike Rayson Jesus freak - International Compassion Artist We live in a capitalist society – no escaping from that fact. But because we’re not satisfied with a free market economy and everything we could ever want or hope to have, we become greedy.

Preachers proclaim that God wants us to have more money more money more money. Banks offer unsustainable low interest rates and high risk loans to people who cannot afford to service their debt. And it all keeps building and building and building until ‘wham’. Welcome to the economic crisis.

John Wesley had some simple rules to follow for sustainable Christian living – 2 of them were ‘do no harm’ and ‘do all the good’. Well, the USA and other western countries have failed on both counts miserably, because of our greed! We have harmed – we have not done ‘all the good’.

So – what now? In the words of another compassion artist – “who will save the children”. Start by sponsoring another child!

Mike Rayson
Jesus freak – International Compassion Artist

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