People don’t value what they get for free. These well-intentioned “helpers” are just encouraging dependency—and crime.
Yes. just like every other rescue mission.
Oh wait. We have centuries of evidence that Christian outreach just like this actually does reach some of the people when nothing else on the face of the earth does.
The Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago, for example.
Does it work on every lost derelict? No.
But it absolutely reaches some of them.
exactly!
I can almost hear them now.... Hot Dang that dudes handing out free food! now I can spend my last $20 on crack instead!