I do believe we should be good stewards in the way we offer help to others, but when we are presented with opportunities to be generous, and we have the means to do so, we should.
We shouldn't attach strings to our giving, either.
Luke 14:13-14 "But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:...And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just."
Generosity and charity are key elements to practical Christianity. When you're feeling a bit stingy, it's good to remember that Sodom and Gomorrah were not destroyed "just" for sexual immorality.
Ezekiel 16:49-50 "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy....And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good."
It's ALSO important to make sure we aren't so busy following certain political factions that we forget those parties are not necessarily based on Christian values, no matter how "conservative" they are. I tire of the "I'm not my brother's keeper" rhetoric, even though I understand it from a logical (albeit cynical) standpoint. Christians ARE their brothers' keepers.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
I do believe we should be good stewards in the way we offer help to others, but when we are presented with opportunities to be generous, and we have the means to do so, we should.
We shouldn't attach strings to our giving, either.
Luke 14:13-14 "But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:...And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just."
Generosity and charity are key elements to practical Christianity. When you're feeling a bit stingy, it's good to remember that Sodom and Gomorrah were not destroyed "just" for sexual immorality.
Ezekiel 16:49-50 "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy....And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good."
It's ALSO important to make sure we aren't so busy following certain political factions that we forget those parties are not necessarily based on Christian values, no matter how "conservative" they are. I tire of the "I'm not my brother's keeper" rhetoric, even though I understand it from a logical (albeit cynical) standpoint. Christians ARE their brothers' keepers.
You are on a roll Miss B. Seems as if you have had a change in attitude. I like it.
Isa 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Isa 1:17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isa 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: Isa 1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
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Psa 119:165 (KJV) 165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
"Do not believe everthing you read on the internet" - Abe Lincoln
I do believe we should be good stewards in the way we offer help to others, but when we are presented with opportunities to be generous, and we have the means to do so, we should.
We shouldn't attach strings to our giving, either.
Luke 14:13-14 "But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:...And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just."
Generosity and charity are key elements to practical Christianity. When you're feeling a bit stingy, it's good to remember that Sodom and Gomorrah were not destroyed "just" for sexual immorality.
Ezekiel 16:49-50 "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy....And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good."
It's ALSO important to make sure we aren't so busy following certain political factions that we forget those parties are not necessarily based on Christian values, no matter how "conservative" they are. I tire of the "I'm not my brother's keeper" rhetoric, even though I understand it from a logical (albeit cynical) standpoint. Christians ARE their brothers' keepers.
Miss B, I do make a point of treating the situations in our body differently from the many community situations I deal with. I even tell people up front who are asking for help with bills that we have plenty of hard-working single parents etc, in our church who if we would be helping first if we had the means.
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There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Chuck Norris lives in Houston.
Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States. – W.E.B. DuBois
Re: Do you believe in feeding the homeless?
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