"so others may live"

I just watched The Guardian and I have to admit that despite the presence of Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner it is a decent movie. It was definately worth volunteering at the theater for a free viewing (with soda and popcorn thrown in as well).

Several statements about sacrificing one's own life for the life of a stranger (or any other person) and the motto "so others may live" that they put on the screen at the end of the movie got me thinking. They stole that motto from the church.

Or, I should say, the church was originally based on self-sacrificing love and giving up our comforts for the strangers among us.

The modern church and the christians that compose this church need to be willing to give up their comfortable lives to help others. We need to give up our need for high tech buildings and fancy programs (that we claim to be using to draw in new people but are more often using to keep the ones we got) and give away more than we spend.

We need to start living the life that Jesus commanded us to live. We need to be willing to live our lives "so that others may live".