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1 | Church requirements for helping others? | Gal 6:10 | Norrie | 121130 | ||
Who can the church help and what are the requirements? My mil is involved in a contraversy at her church because they refuse to help her. They said they can only help widows and orphans and a widow is the wife of one husband and can't have any living children. Is this true? Of course that doesn't stop the pastor from hitting the food bank or this family w/a bunch of fat kids that eat like hogs... | ||||||
2 | Church requirements for helping others? | Gal 6:10 | Searcher56 | 121138 | ||
First, it sounds like you are bitter ... You said "Of course that doesn't stop the pastor from hitting the food bank or this family w/a bunch of fat kids that eat like hogs..." Second, Mommapbs didn't read 1 Timothy 5, which tells me the church is using the Bible for the basis of their decisions. Third, the church needs to make decisions of how to wisely disperse the Lord's money. |
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3 | Church requirements for helping others? | Gal 6:10 | leonore | 121153 | ||
Thank you Searcher56 for your answer. When I read this question it bothered me. It seems very mean to be calling children fat and to say that they eat like hogs. We don't know there situation. A lot of poorer people are overweight because they don't have good nutrition and fill up on inexpensive things like potatoes and rice instead of eating healthfully. Or maybe they just recently have begun to have financial problems. I think the question could have been asked without that information. In 1 Timothy 5:3-16 Paul tells what the elders should do concerning widows. Right after that in verse 17 and 19 he says "the elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor,especially those whose work is preaching and teaching.Do not entertain an accusation against an elder unless it is brought by two or three witnesses." I have only been a Christian for a short while but, this seems to pertain to this situation. Please correct me if I am wrong but, I think that we shouldn't judge the elders(or the pastor) because we don't know the whole situation. Leonore | ||||||
4 | Church requirements for helping others? | Gal 6:10 | Norrie | 121176 | ||
These are kids that when they have church dinners, which this church does a lot, beats everybody to line and sticks there fingers in food to where others refuse to eat after them. They are old enough to know better. They are unrestrained. Sorry if the description of them offends your sensibilities but it's the truth and sometimes the truth hurts. This is what my mil tells me and is not my church. I've been there before and saw these kids in action, it's not an exageration. They fill up on everything, including cake, cookies...drinks lots of soda. They are not fat from not having enough of right kinds of food but from gorging on wrong stuff. |
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5 | Church requirements for helping others? | Gal 6:10 | Rowdy | 121205 | ||
I've been reading your original question and most of the responses which have been pretty good advice. If you'll take some advice from this old man, I'd suggest that you allow all these words settle into your mind and try to mellow out. Yes, I have to agree with you, most kids in America seem to not know what good manners are all about; they also seem to suffer from a lack of responsibility and respect for their elders. But when you've lived a few more years after your own kids break your heart a couple of times with some big mistakes, kids who you thought were raised with more sense than that, you'll grow a little more mellow. I used to be quite the strong believer in discipline but nowadays I don't know what I'd do what with the fact you can land in jail if you spank your kids in public, something I did when it was needed. Thankfully, our world even here in America comes and goes in cycles and hopefully the pendulum is swinging back toward God. (I pray that it does.) Meanwhile, I can only cite the fact in our congregation, we're having similar problems with unruly kids and neglegent parents so we talk about it at men's meetings and resolve to strive for improvement. Yes, God expects us to grow, even us grown-ups but it's amazing He's so patient, kind and willing to let us do this growing up at our speed. He still forgives us even when we mess up our lives something just awful. So the least we can do is forgive our fellow man when they let their kids go and be kids for a little while longer. I would recommend that you go back and re-read 1 Cor 13 and remember all the mistakes and stupid things you've done in your life, maybe even thank your parents for not killing you like they may have been tempted. If in your case, the kids really are getting out of hand, I can only suggest your bringing it up somehow in discussions with the whole congregation BUT with the kind of love as cited in that 1 Cor 13. Hopefully, you'll win some friends who will agree with you, especially if it's as bad as you say it is. But you'll also run into some hardheads who love to spoil kids a little too much. Remind them of 1 Cor 14:40 which really should apply to almost everything in our lives. Well, I've said enough, probably more than enough but God bless you in your struggle to grow and mature in Christ. --Rowdy |
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