Survey: Are Churches Doing Enough to Help the Poor?

Carrollt »

Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:57 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

The interesting thing about the personal touch in helping the poor is that very few are doing it. Why is that? Could it be that some of the ways we can help the poor is to feed them, house them, train them and help them find work that provides an income sufficient to their needs? Could it be that sometimes it just take a little cash to get over the hump? maybe a 100$ would do it, maybe a 1000 whatever. No matter, they all take money and miracles. What it really come down to is this. We are more than happy to help the poor IF it doesn't cost me anything. If I don't have to give up anything I need or have to help somebody else. If it doesn't take away from my family time, or my working time, or my game time or whatever. No, helping th epoor takes a commitment that most of us won't make. It's so much easier to just toss 5 bucks in the plate and hope somebody else does the work so we can get all warm and fuzzy feeling about doing all we can to help the poor. If any one of us did as the good Samaritan did in todays market could it be done for under 1000 or 1500 dollars? Whats a night in the ER cost? Get real, it takes a lot of money to help the poor and it take somebody to do the work.