October 17, 2026
For... The Forgotten
As our "For..." series continues, Pastor Rodney Elliott takes us to Matthew 25, where Jesus describes the day he returns as King and separates the sheep from the goats, the true right and left. To those on his right he says, "I was hungry and you gave me something to eat... I was a stranger and you invited me in," and both groups are surprised to learn that whatever they did, or did not do, for the least of these, they did for him. In an election season full of promises, Pastor Rodney asks whether caring for the forgotten is something we only vote for or something we actually do. He shares about delivering a mattress through CarePortal to a family who had slept on the floor for over a year, even though the breadwinner was working three jobs, and about the moment he realized a close friend had gone two weeks without food while he was too busy to notice. The sheep were not working for their salvation; they were working from a changed heart. The forgotten are never forgotten by God, and they should not be forgotten by us.
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