Have you allowed Jesus to move toward you in your suffering, sadness or disappointment? How can we in turn have compassion for the people of our town? The testimony of the four gospels is that when Jesus Christ sees the brokenness of the world all about him, his deepest impulse, his most natural instinct, is to move toward that sin and suffering, not away from it. When Jesus touched an unclean sinner, Christ did not become unclean. The sinner became clean. Jesus’ earthly ministry was one of giving back to undeserving sinners their humanity. He walked the earth re-humanising the dehumanised and cleaning the unclean.