KNOW GOD, KNOW

COMPASSION
QUESTION TO ASK OURSELVES

• How do we follow Jesus in this self centered world?

• How are we addicted to technologies?
RESURECTING COMPASSION

• Through Social Medias

• Raise awareness for sicknesses
• For organizations
• Raise money
• Overnight Popularity
• ALS ice bucket challenge
• IT WAS HOT, THEN IT`S NOT
DOWNSIDES OF SOCIAL MEDIA

• From 1979 – 2009; 40% DROP IN EMPATHY, DRASTIC DECLINE

• 40 % less than in 1980`s

• I sometkmes try to understand my friend`s problem

• I often have tender feelings about people who are less fortunate than me
• I am often soft hearted
WHY ARE WE CARING LESS???
The rise of social media
1. WE ARE MORE OBSSESED OF OURSELVES

• Selfie pictures
• Not normal
• So many different types of selfies
DIFFERENT TYPE OF SELFIES
Common examples
CINEMA SELFIE
WITH MY GF SELFIE
WITH MY WIFE AND NEW YEAR SELFIE
WITH MY SIBLINGS
SELFIE
WITH MY DOG
SELFIE
WIYH MY CAT SELFIE
WITH MY BOYS
SELFIE
WITH MY MAMA
SELFIE
WITH PAPA AND
SIS SELFIE
MILITARY
SRLFIE
AT SCHOOL
OR AT WORK
SELFIE
OTHER TYPE OF SELFIES

• Just woke up selfie

• ATM selfie
• Duck face selfie
• Looking good in my oufit selfie
• New clothes, new shoes, new bag, new haircut selfie
• At the church selfie
80% OF WHAT A PERSON DOES IN
SOCIAL MEDIA, RELATES DIRECTLY TO US
Social media – self centered
2. OVERWHELMING EXPOSURE TO SUFFERING
DESENTETIZES US
• Seeing too much pain, will not bother us anymore
• Everything is on a timeline on our Social media frontpage
• Doesn`t doo well in distinguishing what`s important
3. LACK OF PERSONAL INTERACTION MAKES IT
EASIER NOT TO CARE
• Post status on fb, then comments
• Face to face, sitting together with someone
• Easier to disconnect from a distance
WHAT IS THE CHALLENGE???
God has called us to so much more; compassion counts
1. TRUE COMPASSION DEMANDS ACTION

• Compassion- deep sympathy, to be moved to action, not just emotions

• TO SAY YOU CARE BHT NOT ACT, IS TO NOT CARE AT ALL
• Instagram, Facebook, Tweeter
• Clicking is not caring, Caring is not clicking
• Click and like is not an action
THE LIFE OF JESUS ON THE GOSPELS

• Everytime we see Jesus with compassion, there is an action

• He felt something, he did something
• Mark 1:40-41
• Matt 14:14
• Matt 20:34
• Not acceptable in God`s church
WHAT DOES COMPASSION DO???
Applications
1. IT INTERRUPTS

• Jesus was interrupted by someone in need

• Mark 6:30-34 – feeds the five thousand
• Luke 8:42 – Jesus raised a dead girl and heals a sick woman
• Mark 2: 4 men with a paralyzed friend
• God works on Divine interruptions, we often miss those because we do our own things
• Let Him interrupt you
2. COMPASSION COSTS

• Good samaritan and a jewish man

• Driven by compassion
• True compassion costs us something
• Cheeseburger in oslo S
• Suit, bottles and some money in Oslo
• There`s a beauty in compassion; it is costly
• Clickinb is cleaning, compassion is messy
• Mentor someone – complicated
• Be a friend
• Be a sister, a brother
3. CHANGES LIVES

• Everywhere jesus went, He changes lives

• When you get outside of yourself, God chsnges lives; and often He changes yours
• Compassion- to ache from the inside for somebody else
• Totally unacceptable in this church that represents Jesus Christ
• We will care, we will act
CONCLUSION