Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,”
You will notice that everyone whom Jesus went after were in some way or another broken. It is interesting the Jesus didn’t go to those who had everything together, but only to those who seemed to be living a life of hopelessness. His whole ministry was about trying to fix the broken.
Look at those whom Jesus went after. He went after the poor to give them the good news that they can be rich in spirit. He sought the brokenhearted to give them hope to heal their wounds. He worked to help those who had been captive by sin. He helped those who were blinded by life, and he found those who were for some reason bruised in life and gave them the hope that they could be freed from the bruise of sin. What a fulfilling ministry Jesus had in trying to fix the broken.
We would be wise to pattern our ministries after Jesus. Instead of trying to find those who have it all together, we would be wise to find those who truly need help. I have watched pastors and church members alike get excited when someone who seems to have everything together joins their church. Yet, you never hear people get excited when someone joins the church whose life seems to be in ruins.
Friend, let me remind you that a good church is not a museum where we praise the people who are so “great,” but church is an emergency room full of Christians trying to fix those who are broken in life. Yes, those who are broken certainly bring their problems with them, but the joy of seeing a life turned around is exciting and fulfilling. If a church is going to be what God wants it to be, then they will go after the broken.
Moreover, let me also remind you that when you go after the broken you will have to deal with their baggage of sin. When you bring in the broken, you will have to help put their life together. As a Christian we must not fall for Satan’s trap of looking down on those who are broken. We must remember that many of us were there at one point ourselves, and if we are honest with ourselves, we still have areas in our own life that are broken. Don’t bemoan those coming into the church who have broken lives, for that is what God wants His church to go after.
Furthermore, you will find that God’s power comes to those who seek the broken. The verse above says, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to…” God’s power does not fall on those who are seeking to fill their church with those who have no problems, but He fills the Christian who tries to fix the broken with power to help those who are broken.
Christian, the church that God is interested in is the church that is actively pursuing the broken. If your church is not actively pursuing the broken, then I would reconsider where you attend. You want to be in a church in which God is interested, and that church is the church that is an emergency room that is open to fix those who are broken.