Because that's difficult...?
Churches have tithes and offerings.
Homeless shelters have homeless people.
Homeless people don't have money, that's why they're homeless.
Unless there was an exceptional amount of donations, a large homeless shelter would not survive.
I believe the suggestion here is to turn the tithes and offerings INTO donations to the homeless shelter. Instead of, you know, building giant buildings that basically serve as a meeting spot for an emotional circle jerk/"we're better than you" club.
They keep telling me that, but I've yet to run across one that didn't spend half the service talking about how the church needed to be a "pure bride unto Christ" and which specific relatively normal behaviors you needed to abstain from in order to maintain that purity. Generally, a lack of alcohol and tobacco usage was prized well over generosity or humility in the Church I grew up in. I've been to exactly one church that was an open community to anyone and supported its members. There were ten people in it and it died when the Pastor had to move to another congregation in order to feed his children because three of us were college students and could only give ten to twenty bucks a week.
my dad went to a church like that. the pastor was greedy so he left because it was not a real church. it was a group of self-religious people claiming to be a church. the church we go to now is a good church with a selfless pastor and an active fellowship
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· 8 years ago
Okay so in the Christian community we are constantly warned about these churches. There's a church in south africa that requires you to pay a fee every month. We accept that these people do not practice what they preach and if you asked any sand christian we would deny their credibility. Their greed is definitely our achillies heel as are other members in various Christian denominations who exploit The Word Of God for their own selfish purposes. Which is why every mass in my Church we always pray for the same thing "Let those who have fallen asleep in the hopes of salvation find your guidance". Sorry about theese people.
How do you know they don't? Plenty churche.s support shelters, food banks and soup kitchens but also have comfortable buildings for their members to sit in to worship. It sounds like BS, by somebody who believes that helping people should be the governments job, that is, always somebody else not their own responsibility. People who do nothing project that onto others who are actually doing something but don't make a big show of doing so.
Or how about turn run down communities/neighborhoods into houses for homeless people and have them live there for free, until they can get a good job and get a steady income
Once you're homeless, it's hard getting a job. You need a phone to receive the call when getting a job, you need reliable transportation, and you need to be decent, since not too many places will hire you if you look or smell homeless.
Churches have tithes and offerings.
Homeless shelters have homeless people.
Homeless people don't have money, that's why they're homeless.
Unless there was an exceptional amount of donations, a large homeless shelter would not survive.
None of that.
I've never seen anything like that.