Posted on 04/20/2015 10:38:17 AM PDT by NYer
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....”put my faith in God, rather than some behemoth, mysterious, cloudy, nebulous organization, that weighs its people down with enormous heavy burdens, and doesn’t doesn’t lift a finger to help them bare it. I finally took my anger directly to God, and found out that His yoke really is easy, and His burden is light”.....
Nice post and a pleasure to read.....freedom from weight is a wonderful thing...especially one Jesus does not intend we carry.
CRS apparently takes pride in not sharing the Gospel and in not preferentially hiring Catholics to do the Catholic charity’s work,....it certainly partners with organizations who together spend billions annually on immoral, and often coercive, means of population control.....and those who teach abortion proceedures.
....In 2013 only around 3 percent of CRS’s revenue came from Catholics in the pews via the annual collection and rice bowl campaign...... 70 percent of its revenue and donated services came from the federal government and another 10 percent or so came from private foundations which has included organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.....
CRS has it’s fair of scandals and recognizes they’re “work” can conflict with Christian principals.
Thanks. For more debate on this issue i would recommend such resources as the Beggars All blog, William Webster's site, the Reformation500 site, and James White's Vintage site on Roman Catholicism.
The redeemed have come to God as souls damned for their works - not saved because of them - and destitute of any means or merit whereby they may escape their just and eternal punishment in Hell Fire and gain eternal life with God. And with contrite heart have cast their whole-hearted repentant faith upon the mercy of God in Christ, trusting the risen Divine Lord Jesus to save them by His sinless shed blood. (Rm. 3:9 - 5:1) And whose faith is thus counted as righteousness, but it is a faith that will follow Him.
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At least there is one teaching authority!
The problem seems to be an adequate distribution of ears in this denomination.:.
Or they were converted to a church and not a Savior.
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