About ten or so years ago our small group was doing a Bible study based upon a book called “in His Steps” by Charles Sheldon.  The book, written in the closing years of the nineteenth century, was a fictional account of a local church and it’s members asking the question, “What would Jesus do?” when faced with decisions about anything important. They made that question their fundamental leadership and management tool. Our small group was challenged to have that question in their mind to try to put a Christian social conscience lens on all their decision-making, personal and professional.

So,  one evening after small group was over I was thinking about what we’d talked about and a letter I’d received from Ghana Rural Integrated Development, a charity for which my Dad was, at the time, chairman of the board.  GRID raises money in Canada to send to one of the most impoverished areas of northern Ghana, and have built schools and churches, drilled wells, empowered people, especially women, and completed innumerable other projects to increase the standard of living and literacy in that area.  I thought about how well off I was, and how lucky I was to have been born into my family.  I thought about how people could choose to go or not to go to church in our society.  I thought about places where any sort of religious expression was frowned on by the state. While I was thinking, a few couplets popped into my head, and before long I found myself sitting at the piano with a notebook and a pencil.  It’s a song about a moral imperative.  It’s a song that says if we are Christians, we ought to live like Christ.  Listen to the song.  Try asking yourself that question, WWJD?  I think you’ll find it a challenge, if you’re honest with yourself.