Posted on 10/08/2010 6:46:35 AM PDT by Catholic Examiner
Is the help we can give is being affected by the hurt we have given?
Defying the stereotypes of Christians held by non-Christians – judgmental, hypocritical, and too political.
And I’m sick of those who look down upon people who look down upon people.
How about seeing through any “charity” that rakes in millions without accountability? These two young men appear to be doing fine, and I don’t hear anything about what their “charity” is actually accomplishing.
sorry if you are offended. This is meant for the teachable.
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6).
“A wise man will hear, and will increase learning” (Proverbs 1:5).
Be blessed.
As a Christian I must say that I do my best to not give a flying rat's rear end what non-Christians think of us. Only God's judgement matters. As long as we keep His laws, and embrace His Son as our Savior for when we inevitably screw things up, we are fine.
Amen. As Christians we can please the world or we can please God but we can't do both.
Wow...maybe you can explain that concept to Jesus when He judges you for what you’ve done. Matthew 25:40
see post #9
What, that I was expected to follow Scripture and accept Jesus as my Savior? God is not going to have a problem with that.
I am not going to be generous to the poor to impress any human. I try to be generous to the poor because God wants me to be generous to the poor. I know I fall short of God's expectations for me so I do ask Jesus for forgiveness for my sins. Are you suggesting I act like the Pharisee in the Temple and do good things just to impress others?
I see no inconsistency between the post you appear to criticize and Matthew 25:40. How is not striving to please the world inconsistent with taking care of “the least of these”? I applaud all who invest their private time and resources to help the poor, especially when such help is preceded by preaching the Gospel.
Thanks - those are wonderful verses....as all of scripture is wonderful. I thought you might recognize my statement as a paraphrase from a great Christian writer of the past, but I guess not.
I do tire of being preached at by the oh-so-charitable youth who can somehow see into the heart of the older generation of believers in their giving; see into their hearts relative to their stale hymns; see into their hearts with respect to their clinging to sound doctrine; see into their hearts and pronounce them hypocrites.
I don’t believe in God’s judgement because I believe He knows what we are going to do, before He even creates us.
No I’m asking you act like Jesus. Which you appear to be doing. The attitude of not caring what people think is commendable, but not at the cost of them not seeing Jesus in you because of political or cultural or even religious motives. One should be giving because Christ told us to be. But there are often hidden motives that we simply accept without question and that the needy can see right through.
That is what i’m saying. You are welcome to disagree with that assessment.
Peace.
I’m sorry but that quote slips my mind.
I agree with you about the young judging the old expressions of faith. I am only saying we must judge our motives, because others do.
peace to you.
I cannot help what others do regarding their own accepting of Jesus as Savior outside of what I do personally. If someone wants to talk to me about God, I will happilly engage that person and teach him what I can. I try to understand Scripture so that when those moments happen, I can be an effective teacher of Scripture. If that person chooses to believe because of what I teach him, then God bless him. All I can do is preach the Scripture and follow it as best as I can, and that includes (requires) turning to Jesus for forgiveness when I screw up.
As we are taught in the Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man, we have Scripture to teach us the Truth. If someone cannot accept the Truth even with ready access to Scripture (which pretty much anyone in the first world has today) then no external force can help him, even if someone were to rise from the dead to come warn him, which of course DID happen.
There is no inconsistancy as long as we don’t carry the motives of the world into our service. (ie, politics, judgementalism, hypocrisy).
My concern is really about the “rat’s rear end” part. I just cant see Jesus saying or being like that.
That is just my opinion.
agreed.
Don’t mind me, but I don’t think I’ll start placing more value on the opinion of men than the opinion of God.
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