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Ministering to Christ (Vol 4 No 52)

The sacred role of ministry

Is caring for the broken –

Christ can be heard, but silently

As if his pain has spoken.

Christ is not seen in pageantry,

Nor seen in dazz’ling raiment;

Christ comes to us as refugee,

As outcast and as vagrant.

Do we see Christ in those in pain,

And hear his constant pleading?

In prisoners, those we might disdain -

Is this where he is bleeding?

If we neglect the least of these

And show them no compassion,

Then Christ is left in deep despair.

For loving is his passion.

When we support those gone astray,

The stranger and the helpless,

We minister to Christ and lay

The grounds for hope and justice. 

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