We Care Because We’re Cared For

At the end of every podcast, we like to ask our guests to share what God has been teaching them in this season of life. This week’s guest is Chris Chancey , the CEO and Founder of Amplio Recruiting where he is focused on achieving Amplio's vision of staffing companies in 25 locations by 2025 and provides operational and financial support to the Amplio team.

Exodus 23:9

You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Right now, we're in a unique position as a team. We have such an incredible team around the country. And, you know, I don't ever want to make it seem like, you know, I'm doing anything. We just have an incredibly gifted team. But our team on a daily basis is in a position where we're straddling political views and cultural beliefs and religious beliefs. And it's, you know, it's a balancing act there. 

And I think for me personally right now, just really filling that sense of being biblically grounded before I can make any judgments or share any opinions about what I think should be going on politically in our country. And so this past Sunday, I was going to speak at my home church down in south Georgia. And, you know, I got to share on the political topic of immigration and what the Bible has to say about that. And that's really for me was so unique. I got to say let's all start at the same place that we've got to be biblically engaged before we can be politically outraged. I think it's just so easy for us to share our opinions on social media or, you know, to just kind of get on our soapbox about something. But we first need to check ourselves and make sure, hey, is this grounded in biblical truth? 

And so in the case of immigration, just to share one verse, I spent a lot of time in Deuteronomy, but you really see it in Exodus, Leviticus, and all-around in the Old Testament. Every time that there's a law around caring for the widow, the orphan, and sojourner, there's always this one commandment that comes right after it. And really it’s not a command, but it’s more of a statement. It says, you know, care for the sojourners because you were sojourners in Egypt. 

Every single time as you look at it, that phrase is always there aftercare for the sojourner because you were one. And I just think we all as a collective community and as the church needs to recognize, hey, God's been faithful to us. And so we need to extend that same hospitality and that same grace to the immigrant, to the sojourner, to the refugee, to the foreigner that is among us, not just for our economic good, even though that's substantially going to be the case, but certainly for just the holistic view of the gospel. 

And I think that's clear and evident in scripture throughout. And that's really been something that I've been chewing on a lot lately.