2026 is the year of Encounters & Visitations!

You choose your Daily Encounter, God chooses your Holy Visitation!

There is only one way to God, and it’s through Jesus –– but in Jesus, there are many ways to connect with God.

Text CONNECT to 59090 to find out how you best connect with God.

Greek: ἐσπλαγχνίσθη (esplagchnisthē) = To be moved with compassion; have compassion; to be moved as to one's bowels.

Simplified Definition: Compassion is connecting with His heart towards His people.

Compassion is action-based, not something to just understand intellectually.

The Church at large has empathy but it needs to move from empathy to true compassion.

Empathy is feeling with someone.

Empathy is feeling with someone.

Compassion is love moved into action.

In simple terms:
- Empathy feels the pain
- Compassion moves to meet the need

Warning:
If your eyes see and your heart feels, but you never move to action, you’re not walking in compassion—you’re settling for comfortable Christianity.

Feeling isn't the finish line—obedience is.

Feeling is the initation.

4 Ways Jesus Sees People
1. He saw the crowd

Do you slow down enough to see the crowd?

4 Ways Jesus Sees People
1. He saw the crowd
2. He saw them as they really were—harassed and helpless

Do you see people as they really are?

Are you surprised when sinners sin?

4 Ways Jesus Sees People
1. He saw the crowd
2. He saw them as they really were—harassed and helpless
3. He saw a ripe harvest

We don't have a harvest problem...

This year's outreach numbers to date:
- Salvations: 1,205
- Conversations: 2,385

That is 50.5%!

4 Ways Jesus Sees People
1. He saw the crowd
2. He saw them as they really were—harassed and helpless
3. He saw a ripe harvest
4. He saw that the workers were few

1 million people live in Fort Worth.

If the 1,300 people in the room shared with 3 people every day, the Gospel would be shared 3,900 times per day!

It would take 256 days, or 8.5 months, to tell the whole city.

If 30% of those people say "yes" to Jesus, that's 300,000 salvations!

Greek: ἐκβάλλω (ekballo) = To cast out, drive out, send out.

Text SLS to 59090 if you want to be developed as a spiritual leader.

True compassion is what makes you bold.

Practical Advice:
When you feel the presence of God stir in your heart, it's an invitation to connect with God through Compassion.

4 Ways to Grow in Compassion
1. Position yourself where needs exist

Text BELONG to 59090 to join us in making disciples.

4 Ways to Grow in Compassion
1. Position yourself where needs exist
2. Slow down enough to actually notice people

Compassion begins when the hurry ends.

4 Ways to Grow in Compassion
1. Position yourself where needs exist
2. Slow down enough to actually notice people
3. Choose to serve instead of waiting to be served

Text FOOD to 59090 to serve at Mercy Culture Food Bank.

4 Ways to Grow in Compassion
1. Position yourself where needs exist
2. Slow down enough to actually notice people
3. Choose to serve instead of waiting to be served
4. Say "Yes" when your flesh says "No"

Text KIDS to 59090 to serve in MC Kids.

Warning:
If you never step out in any of these ways and move beyond your comfort zone, you may not actually be seeing people the way God sees them—because when God sees people, He moves toward them.

"Who is my neighbor?"

The religious people saw the need, but they didn't stop.

Are you the kind of person who loves?

Do you reflect Jesus by loving your neighbor?