We Live As Witnesses

We Live As Witnesses confronts us with a challenging question: What is our response to suffering around us? Through the story in John 9 of Jesus healing a man blind from birth, we discover three transformative principles about following the way of Jesus. First, Jesus sees people where others see categories. While the disciples asked whose sin caused the blindness, Jesus saw a person created to display God's glory. Second, Jesus moves toward pain instead of away from it. He didn't have to touch the blind man to heal him, but He chose to step closer, to get personal, to engage with the messiness of human suffering. Finally, Jesus turns healed people into witnesses. The formerly blind man's testimony was simple but undeniable: I was blind, but now I see. This message challenges us to examine whether suffering has become invisible to us because we've learned not to look. In Madison County alone, hundreds of children are in foster care, yet many of us drive past their neighborhoods without seeing them. The call is clear: we cannot consistently follow a Savior who moves toward vulnerable people while we constantly move away from them. The question isn't whether we can do everything, but whether we're willing to do something with the gifts and resources God has given us.