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Making the Love of Christ Known in Practical Ways

3/20/2015

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This post was written by one of our new volunteers, Kristina Drolet, a recent Pepperdine School of Law graduate. She writes about her experience at our recent legal clinic.
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At CLA-LA’s March 14th legal aid clinic held at Faithful Central Bible Church (FCBC) in Inglewood, CA, fifty-seven volunteers, including members of FCBC, attorneys, and law students from schools including Pepperdine, USC, UCLA and La Verne, came together to identify with those living in poverty and to serve as His hands and feet.
 

As a volunteer at Saturday's clinic, I witnessed first-hand how transformative the clinic experience can be for the clients, and how essential both the legal and spiritual teams are to this process. Working at the intake desk, I spoke with one woman as she was signing in. She broke down into tears as she described the problems she was facing. One of the spiritual team volunteers prayed with her and offered a listening ear as she waited to be called by the legal team. When it was her turn to be seen, I watched her walking arm-in-arm with the spiritual volunteer, and saw that she was now smiling, appeared to be standing taller, and looked much more hopeful than when she had come in.



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Lost and Found

3/12/2015

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If you were to lose something of great value, chances are you would do whatever it took to find that item. If you lose your phone or wallet, you will carefully retrace your steps until you figure out where it is. We know what has great value to us by how far we will go to find those items when they are lost.

In Luke 15 Jesus shares two stories: one about a shepherd who loses one sheep and leaves the 99 others to seek it out, and the other of a woman who loses one of her ten coins and searches her whole house until she finds it. Both the shepherd and woman stopped what they were doing and dropped everything else they had all because they saw the one sheep and one coin as incredibly valuable.

What has great value in our lives? Maybe it’s children, our family, our job, or home, but when it comes to matters of the heart, what might we say? That question is often a little harder to answer because it’s difficult to identify when something is lost within us. Maybe our relationship with Jesus slowly drifts away and we wake up years later realizing there has been a gradual shift in our lives and we feel far from God. Or maybe a relationship has been broken, and we long to see that bond restored. When there are things within us that have gone missing, we should desire to see them restored.

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Reversing the Question

3/4/2015

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We’ve been talking over the last month about what it means to see our neighbor - to really recognize them as individuals beyond the contexts and situations we meet them in. But we’ve known all along that merely seeing people isn’t enough. At some point, we must translate our seeing into doing. 
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But what does that look like? How can we know how to act - and have the courage to do so? And why, in middle of the busyness that fills our lives, while we still honor our responsibilities to family and work and immediate community, would we bother? 

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