INCLUDE ME OUT

This quote, "Include me out," is a concise way of expressing one's intentional exclusion or desire to not participate in a certain activity or situation. It implies a choice to distance oneself from or avoid being involved in something. By using this phrase, the speaker asserts their decision to opt out and not be included, emphasizing their preference to stay away from or be excluded from a specific matter. (Samuel Goldwyn)

Rev Colin Morris was born in Bolton Lancashire in 1929. He was a minister of the Methodist Church and was sent to Zambia, then known as Northern Rhodesia, in 1956.

The event that inspired his writing of this book “INCLUDE ME OUT” (he wrote it in one weekend), was that a Zambia man had dropped dead not a hundred yards from his front door. In his stomach they found a few leaves and what appeared to be a ball of grass.

He says, “It is pointless turning up the figures of the Methodist relief Fund or Christian Aid. He died without knowing that Jesus cared for him, not in a sentimental, spiritual way, but by the offer of a square meal. It just so happened that none of Jesus’ men were around to give it to him, so he died and Jesus died with him.”  (page 51)

Colin Morris turns his anger onto the church, and himself as a minister of the church, largely because they had spent so much time debating trivia regarding unity, and hours of discussion of what was the acceptable way to dispose of the left-over elements from Communion, and did not spend sufficient time reaching out to the “little people” that Jesus loved and who needed the church desperately.

He said, “There are things happening in God’s world which are such an affront to His righteousness that we cannot always contain ourselves and so explode in frustration.” Pg8

‘INCLUDE ME OUT’  by Colin Morris 1975

My question is “What am I, what are we, what are the churches doing for those that are truly suffering in our world?”