John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.” Jesus replied, “Do not prevent him.” I think that the disciples thought that only they had the ownership of doing good or of performing miracles. I think what Jesus is teaching us today is that we Christians do not have a monopoly on doing good. Yes, being Jesus’ disciples requires from us to love others, to help them, to pray for them, but it does not mean that a person that is non-Christian or does not believe in God can’t do good to others as well. All we should do is to rejoice whenever there is something good happening to other people because to love others is not reserved only to us Christians. “For whoever is not against us is for us."
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