What's a Christian to Do?
Mother had been on a shopping excursion to Chico’s. It’s on her regular route of places to shop so she knows all of the women who work there. One of the ladies approached Mother, but not to ask if she needed assistance, but to request help for herself. Apparently her daughter had called with some sort of emergency and needed her right away, so she frantically asked Mother what she should do. The store manager had been called to relieve her, but there was no response. None of her coworkers seemed to know what to do either, so the panic continued. There was no way that my 88 year old mother could cover for her, so she was not sure how she could have helped. She picked up the phone and asked me the question, “As a Christian how should I have responded?” It sounded like a difficult situation, but my response was simple, “You could have asked her if you could pray for her.” You might say, but what if she was not a Christian? She could refuse your offer. What if t...