I’m here in Florida which is nominally still conservative, and it appears to be at, if not lurching past, the tipping point of a critical amount of “don’t care.”
I’m in a pinch situation and call a church. Do they want to meet with me? Nope. “Ain’t got no money [as if that was even the primary thing!] We gave to Salvation Army. Talk to them.” And with that, they don’t even understand half my story, and don’t care that they don’t. With this attitude, if Jesus personally walked in and said hello, they’d probably miss recognizing Him.
Hello. Hell-O.
That Church gave to the Salvation Army??? What’s the difference? Both this (apparently apostate) church and the Salvation Army are churches. Why couldn’t the former church do its own works instead? Faith without works is dead, as the saying goes.
This kind of stuff is just another reason to add to the idea that churches are becoming corrupted and that I am better off, as a Christian, tithing to the Salvation Army. They actually both preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and perform good works.