Example: Some of my friends and fellow Christians on FACEBOOK keep "Liking" and sharing the idea that people on "Welfare" should be drug tested before they get help. I see immediately what they don't like (people on drugs), but when I hear them talk they are so derisive in the substance that it appears that the net that they cast as to who gets help is rather large. I asked, what about their children? How are they being fed, etc. ? They say, "Let their family take care of them. Not me?"
Example: A group to which I belong buys presents (By angel tree) for kids in the community at Christmas. In a discussion some stated that they resent buying presents for those kids when their parents "probably smoke and drink" and waste money. "Let their family take care of them. Not me?"
I guess only the poor waste money.
I try to tell them that we have a responsibility to help. Some of these families came from Mexico where there was no work, and are trying to build a new life. You know what comes next........
I'm trying to remember what a follower of Jesus would do, but then it's said, "Its Obama's fault!."
And they laugh.
And they laugh.
I try to run from this but I can't. Republican Christians and Democratic Christians! NO SUCH THING. We either follow Jesus or we don't. If federal/state assistance vanished and it may. If food stamps vanish.
Will Christians pick up the slack?
WILL I PICK UP THE SLACK?
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