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WeedleTLiar on scored.co
1 day ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
Couple things:
>I did everything right
>We wasted time and money preaching to niggers overseas while Christian brothers and sisters went hungry next door.
I guess not...
You placed pearls before swing instead of taking care of your own children.
Paul says (2nd Thessalonians 7-10):
"You know that you ought to follow our example. You never saw us loafing. *We never accepted food from anyone without buying it.* We worked hard, day and night, for the money we needed to live on. We don't want to be a burden on any of you. We had the right to ask you to feed us. But we wanted to show you firsthand how you should work for your living. While we were with you, we gave you the rule, "He who doesn't work won't eat".
I think that applies just as well to those who "work" for free. There is no virtue in giving away all you have if you turn around and expect charity. Undercharging means undercutting a fellow Christian who needs that money to live.
Good Christians understand that they need to do the work that enables them to live (or others to live, in trade) and that this work is not the same "work" as prosthelytizing.
I don't know, but I suspect this family is part of a Church which, no doubt, preaches the virtue of these showy acts of "charity" (flying across the world to help people who would just as soon eat you). They also, no doubt, collect money from their parishioners for this purpose. And, I suppose, someone must be paid to "administer" these programs, while families like these give up everything they have just to participate?
Never underestimate the potential of Churches to take advantage of the goodwill of their followers.
>I did everything right
>We wasted time and money preaching to niggers overseas while Christian brothers and sisters went hungry next door.
I guess not...
You placed pearls before swing instead of taking care of your own children.
Paul says (2nd Thessalonians 7-10):
"You know that you ought to follow our example. You never saw us loafing. *We never accepted food from anyone without buying it.* We worked hard, day and night, for the money we needed to live on. We don't want to be a burden on any of you. We had the right to ask you to feed us. But we wanted to show you firsthand how you should work for your living. While we were with you, we gave you the rule, "He who doesn't work won't eat".
I think that applies just as well to those who "work" for free. There is no virtue in giving away all you have if you turn around and expect charity. Undercharging means undercutting a fellow Christian who needs that money to live.
Good Christians understand that they need to do the work that enables them to live (or others to live, in trade) and that this work is not the same "work" as prosthelytizing.
I don't know, but I suspect this family is part of a Church which, no doubt, preaches the virtue of these showy acts of "charity" (flying across the world to help people who would just as soon eat you). They also, no doubt, collect money from their parishioners for this purpose. And, I suppose, someone must be paid to "administer" these programs, while families like these give up everything they have just to participate?
Never underestimate the potential of Churches to take advantage of the goodwill of their followers.