“The Christian faith calls people to be others-interested as well as self-interested. Christianity validates the possibility of self-giving love. Christians’ primary model for love is the love that they experience from God and a key demonstration of that love occurred in the sacrificial life and death of Jesus. As people experience God’s love, they are called in turn to express that love in their own lives as they deal with others.”
Rebecca M. Blank in “Market Behavior and Christian Behavior” in Faithful Economics: The Moral Worlds of a Neutral Science, ed. James W. Henderson and John Pisciotta (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2005) 42.
What would people say about you? Are you others-interested as well as self-interested? Blank’s words echo the Apostle Paul who likewise proclaimed: Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Philippians 2:4
Yesterday went great! Today I will facilitate more team-building activities here at Asbury Theological Seminary with the advancement staff before heading home later. God help each of us (and the staff of ATS) be others-interested as well as self-interested, so that our lives reflect your sacrificial love.