Arthur Peter (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} arthurpeter) wrote,@ 2006-05-17 10:29:00 |
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WATCH WHERE YOU ARE GIVING
Watch Where You're Giving
I will never forget a woman who came to the food pantry at our
church. She also needed a little money to pay her next month's
rent. When she came into my office, it was obvious her front teeth
had been broken out. When I asked what happened, she said her
boyfriend, Freddy, had knocked her teeth out.
I said, "He must not be a very nice man."
She said, "Oh yes, Freddy is a nice man. He loves me and cares
for me." Then she asked me for half-a-month's rent. Our church
happened to have enough money to help her out, so I gave her the
money. This surprised her.
She said, "So often when I ask churches for money, they don't
give me much help." Then she added something I will never forget.
She said, "You know, it's interesting to me how it's mostly poor
people who help poor people. The rich people really don't."
The statement indicted me a bit because I thought of all the
times we had spent vast amounts of money to put on huge choir
programs, church building, fellowship, staff salaries and then said we didn't have enough money to feed the poor. I wonder if God was very impressed with our disclaimers.
See: Hos 6:6; Ro 13:10; Jas 1:27
-- Calvin Miller, "From Entertainment to Servanthood," Preaching
Today, Tape Number 132. --
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Watch Where You're Giving
I will never forget a woman who came to the food pantry at our
church. She also needed a little money to pay her next month's
rent. When she came into my office, it was obvious her front teeth
had been broken out. When I asked what happened, she said her
boyfriend, Freddy, had knocked her teeth out.
I said, "He must not be a very nice man."
She said, "Oh yes, Freddy is a nice man. He loves me and cares
for me." Then she asked me for half-a-month's rent. Our church
happened to have enough money to help her out, so I gave her the
money. This surprised her.
She said, "So often when I ask churches for money, they don't
give me much help." Then she added something I will never forget.
She said, "You know, it's interesting to me how it's mostly poor
people who help poor people. The rich people really don't."
The statement indicted me a bit because I thought of all the
times we had spent vast amounts of money to put on huge choir
programs, church building, fellowship, staff salaries and then said we didn't have enough money to feed the poor. I wonder if God was very impressed with our disclaimers.
See: Hos 6:6; Ro 13:10; Jas 1:27
-- Calvin Miller, "From Entertainment to Servanthood," Preaching
Today, Tape Number 132. --
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God Bless,
Arthur Peter
