Join the Street Team / 街头医疗队
Dexu Xia
Join the Street Team
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners. Mark 2:17
City health workers in San Francisco are taking medical care to the streets to supply the homeless who are suffering from opioid addiction with medicine to treat their addiction. The program began in response to the rising number of homeless who are injecting. Customarily, doctors wait for patients to come to a clinic. By taking medical care to the afflicted instead, patients don’t have to overcome the challenges of transportation or needing to remember the appointment.
The health workers’ willingness to go to those in need of care reminds me of the way Jesus has come to us in our need. In His ministry, Jesus sought out those who the religious elite were quick to ignore: He ate with “sinners and tax collectors” (Mark 2:16). When asked why He would do that, Jesus replied, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick” (v. 17). He went on to say that His intention was to call sinners, not the righteous, into relationship with Him.
When we realize that we’re all “sick” and in need of a doctor (Romans 3:10), we can better appreciate Jesus’s willingness to eat with the “sinners and tax collectors”—us. In turn, like the health care workers in San Francisco, Jesus appointed us as His “street team” to take His saving message to others in need.
How did Jesus seek you out? To whom can you take the medicine of Jesus?
Thank You, Jesus, for meeting me in my condition.
街头医疗队
我来本不是召义人，乃是召罪人。-马可福音2章17节
由于注射毒品的游民日益增加，旧金山的城市医疗人员便决定带医疗队走上街头，为那些染上鸦片类药物成瘾的露宿者提供药物治疗。一般而言，医生都是在诊所等待患者上门求诊，但这个计划却是由医疗队前往街头，为这些无家可归的人提供医疗服务。游民不必应付交通问题，也无需担心忘记了看医生的日期。
这些医疗队员愿意前去关心这些需要关怀的人，让我想起耶稣也因着我们的需要而来到我们当中。在耶稣的传道工作中，祂“和罪人并税吏一同吃饭”（16节），耶稣所寻找的正是那些宗教领袖不屑和忽视的人。当人问耶稣为什么要这样做时，祂回答说：“康健的人用不着医生，有病的人才用得着”（17节），祂还进一步说明，祂来到世上是要呼召罪人与祂建立关系，而不是呼召义人。
罗马书3章10节告诉我们：“没有义人，连一个也没有！”当我们意识到我们都“病了”，并且需要医生的时候，对于耶稣乐意与“罪人和税吏”（包括我们）一同吃饭的这件事，就更能心存感恩。同样地，像旧金山的医疗队一样，耶稣也任命我们成为祂的“街头医疗队”，将祂拯救人的信息带给那些有需要的人。
亲爱的耶稣，感谢祢，在我的苦境中伸手搭救我！
耶稣如何寻找你？你可以将耶稣的福音带给谁？