<p>Compassion is a hot topic these days. Who deserves it, should it affect our politics, and what's in it for me...</p> <p>In this episode, Dave and Deb dig into compassion and digress to the Great British Baking Show and Survivor -- the longest running American reality TV show, hosted by "America's Camp Director" Jeff Probst.</p> <p>Sometimes, we unwittingly view compassion as a means to an end. Whether that end is reward or response. But is compassion merely currency to get me what I want?</p> <p>God addressed compassion over and over in the Old Testament and Jesus did it again both preaching it and living it out in the New.</p> <p>Between people, compassion is love's response to suffering. It's a character quality that should mark Christians, but, as David Englehart writes, "Compassion needs to be nurtured and practiced or even this basic love response can grow dull and cold."</p> <p>Have a listen.</p>