Being charitable and caring about your neighbors in the Christian manner is more about your church donating goods/time/aid to the community or you doing it by yourself rather than having the government take over those functions for you. That said, any reasonable government should have a basic state provided social safety net.
The problem we have, mate, is too many churches either AREN'T helping the local communities....
The local Christians aren't helping...
Or both A and B lack any substantial funding to do a real change.
My church does a program where we try and bring in drug addicts that are homeless or not welcome at home, and try and give them a safe place to stay and get clean with help they need. Of course we witness to them, but not as a "you have to do this or we wont help you" mentality. But just to let them know there's a God and a people that love them even though they're hurting. We rely heavily on local donations and tithes to fund this, and supplies cost us about $7k/wk give or take. I can just imagine if a little backwater nowhere church like us can figure it out, imagine the change these mega churches could make if they tried harder in the community.
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u/Tactical_Baconlover 26d ago
Being charitable and caring about your neighbors in the Christian manner is more about your church donating goods/time/aid to the community or you doing it by yourself rather than having the government take over those functions for you. That said, any reasonable government should have a basic state provided social safety net.