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Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
When it comes to the plight of providing food, shelter, and assistance to those in need (such as the homeless or poor/low income families, etc.), is this something that our government should be doing (since our gov't is currently spending BILLIONS of dollars to fight a war oversea's) or is this something that "The Church" should be focusing on more? Who should bear the greatest responsibility?
What do you think?
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Nice question HK. This isn't exactly an answer to your question but I would like to say that I think that churches should be putting more money back into our communities instead of largely taking money out. Not all churches do this of course. However, there are a plethora of huge, million dollar churches right across the street from the projects and there is even one church in Atlanta where the pastor drives a Bentley!
Why in the world would you see the need to put a million dollars into a beautiful building when you could put a good deal of the money into homeless shelter program owned by the church OR (here's a radical idea) give some of that money to the poor paupers who are sitting in a house in the dark and the cold b/c they are dirt poor but are still trying to help pay for that million dollar church. It happens all the time.
That's ridiculous and the church ought to be doing more for the community that it's located in.
SC