Compassion: the command and the commission.
1 Jn 4:19-5:4; Lk 4: 11-18
The Word speaks of two important aspects of a disciple: the command and the commission. The command is given in general and the commission is given to a specific individual or a small group. For a disciple the command is to love and the commission is to reachout, to heal, to serve. Putting all of these and both the command and the commission together, the call is towards Compassion. Compassion is the call of a disciple, the call for which the Lord has anointed you and me, the call to genuinely love!