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To: DBeers
Maybe I've turned into a Scrooge, but at work meeting the other day, they asked us to take up a collection for a woman whos current boyfriend kicked her out. She's 25, and has 4 kids, 8 years and under. While I feel sorry for her children, I wanted to shout out, "I'll donate a box of condoms for her, hasn't she figured out what's causing it?"

Like I said, maybe I'm a Scrooge.

35 posted on 12/10/2004 2:52:26 PM PST by LisaMalia (Merry CHRISTmas!)
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To: LisaMalia
Like I said, maybe I'm a Scrooge.

No -Charity requires fraternal correction -I would have suggested abstinence or marriage. The only way this woman will find true freedom is in obediently embracing Truth.

37 posted on 12/10/2004 3:04:08 PM PST by DBeers
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To: LisaMalia

This is where the church has dropped the ball on social issues. A Christian who knows this woman should be able to minister to her with resources provided by the church. I don't have my Bible handy, but there's a passage in there about it basically being useless to say to people "Go, be warmed and filled" but not actually doing anything for them. In many cases, providing the things needed for daily living makes the one ministered to so grateful (for him/herself and sake of the children involved) that hearts are opened to the Gospel.

At that point, it becomes possible to talk about abstinence and waiting until marriage. It is useless to say "I'll donate a box of condoms for her, hasn't she figured out what's causing it?" All that does is alienate people when what you want to do is love them out of a circumscribed lifestyle and help them to understand the bigger, better life that they could have.

I sound vehement and that's because I have been there. Not with four children, but with one. Being a single mom is no picnic. My heart goes out to this woman. May she find the help she truly needs.


39 posted on 12/10/2004 6:06:26 PM PST by MBombardier
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To: LisaMalia
**She's 25, and has 4 kids, 8 years and under**

Hmmm...so did my mother...but she was married.

66 posted on 12/11/2004 7:54:12 AM PST by mrs tiggywinkle
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