Late in 2009, Steve Chase and I founded a non-profit called Bearing Their Burdens.
It is an experiment in obedience. We are not sure what it will look like, but we are asking GOD to show us daily the truth established in this verse:
Galatians 6:2 New King James Version (NKJV)
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
We believe the Bible and we take seriously the commands of Jesus when he said in Matthew 28:
18 Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
To be given authority means their is a source of power to do something asked and a responsibility to carry it out fully.
To then be told exactly what to do means there should be no confusion about the task at hand.
To be told Jesus is with us means that we are not doing this alone but in an ongoing cooperative relationship with the Master of the Universe.
So we are doing this every day. We are assuming our responsibility to be available wherever He would lead us and to do and say whatever He would tell us.
It is not easy...but it is simple.
