the problem is spiritual
they need Jesus, they need to change their heart, they need the spiritual rebirth
they are killing themselves with drugs and alcohol and do not want to change.
I am already in, for the last 7 years,a homeless ministry, and I know this first hand.’’
almost none want to sober up, and refuse to go to long term housing if they have to unless it is winter, the cold shelter will take them in, but the treatment programs are what they avoid.
I have given awqy over 200 Bibles by now...only 2 ever went to church, only 3 ever went to the long term mission, only 4 ever prayed with me to get saved, one of them got on a bus, never saw her again, the others just went back to their drugs.
it is depressing to see so many reject salvation and then get huffy if I dont feed them each time I see them.
alcohol and meth are killers.
Correct. Another significant factor is the destruction of the nuclear family with one man, one woman bonded for life raising children under one roof. When I was nine years old, my family moved from a very stable area where life was mostly like Leave it to Beaver/The Andy Griffith Show to one tortured by addictions and divorce. I’d never even HEARD of divorce until then. I noticed, in fifth grade, that the kids whose parents were “getting a divorce” or were already divorced seemed lost. And they were.