Featured Christian Charity .... Where and When do You Draw the Line!

Photos of Los Angeles Skid Row. An area of ministry my wife and I know so very well. We spent one day a month at the Los Angeles Union Rescue mission for 34 years. We also ministered at the Midnight Mission, Los Angeles MIssion and Fred Jordan Mission. Then we would minister at Orange County Rescie MIssion and Circle City Homeless Sheleter in Corona, CA.

I am all to familiar with the needs of Americans who need a hand out to lift them back up to a place of productivity in society. I think a lot of Americans have forgotten our big cities and small one too, are being over run by homeless, needy folks who have children in tow!

Look at some photos from the LA Skid Row area! And tell me, were do we draw the line on empathy?

 

Some more photos of Skid Row!

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If you can stand it. one more photo of Skid Row!

I am just saying, that we, as Americans, have a serious problem with homeess, and empathy can only be spread so far.

Here is the 2013 report on National homelessness. https://www.onecpd.info/resources/documents/ahar-2013-part1.pdf

Here is a report on homeless vets in 2013, and you need to also remember that the VA has demonstrated an unwillingness to take care of our vets medical needs in a timely manner.

http://www.endhomelessness.org/pages/veterans



Sure, the government will be all welcoming and helpful to immigrants here illegally, but what has the government really done on a long termbasis that is successful. These homeless immigrants here illegally will one day soon be your problem and mine, begging at street corners, and maybe even robbing us.

When does it end? Please tell me. When des empathy and charity reach a saturation point where we have to say enough is enough, No mas!

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I agree...

Yet, and I don't mean to disrespect your point of view .... isn't the Obama administration as a whole, adding to the roles of the entitled daily?

I think the borders should be closed until we, as a nation, get a leg up on getting the homeless off the streets, and putting people back to work!

With each new immigrant here illegally, we are adding one more mouth to feed, one more body to shelter and clothe. And because there are fewer jobs than there are people to fill them, we are encouraging welfare and homelessness.

I've read of several job opening in my area of California, where there was like one job, and a line of three hundred people waiting to apply.

My god friend is ging on his fifth year of being unemployed. He worked for Edison, rebuilding transformer untis. It is now being done in Mexico, and five hundred people lost a job here in California. And he goes to three or four interviews a week and tells me that there are hundreds of peple in line for one of two or three jobs. This is sad!Where do we stop and say, let's fix this before we try to fix the worlds problems on the backs of our already entitled and needy citizens?

We've dug a hole that is only getting deeper, and as aong as we have pourous borders, the hole goes deeper.

This is what the portesters in Murrieta are standing for. They are saying, Mr. Obama, we can barely take care of our own cildren, our classrooms are filled to capacity, and we just don't see us being able to take on hundreds of thousands of more kids!

 

You are ....

really being ridiculous. Your questions are meat to provoke, kind of like trolling!

 

Did I ask for your view on my standing with God?

I do understand your point, James, but we still have to live in this world while wait for His return. Unless you know something that most of us don't, and that is a date and time for the return, we have to be good stewards with what He gave us, here and now!

There is no assurance. He will return in your lifetime or mine, which is why we must be concerned with the standard of living around us!

Surely, He knows every hair on our head, and he knows where we will lay our head each night, but not providing for our well being in the here and now sounds more like a WOF/Name-it-claim-it theology, and that leaves me wondering if we have a wolves in the midst?

I've spent time in WOF and NICI, and I am aware of their teaching that we need not worry or be concerned with what is going on around us because He is coming back, and I pray it be sooner than later, so let the world go to hell in a hand basket as you say, we are not to be concerned with this place. After all, if we have faith, the world can fall apart all around us, and He has our back, and will have our back until He returns!

That is all well and good, but we are also put here to take care of the world He created and gave to us! If this wasn't true, then in the OT, no one needed to flee immorality; fight tyranny; and go to war when God so ordained it!

I do not quite know where you and your theology is coming from, but if I need help, I'd say you need help too! :flower:

Well, that is not the case, but convincing someone that thinks they know another and what is in that persons heart, based on a cyber evaluation is another form of Dr. Phil psycobabble. Secondly, I didn't ask for an opinion from you. I am quite capable of knowing the voice of God from the voice of peer trying to be more than what they are called to be. Tend to your own herd, and we'll both be fine!

In the future, before you cast pious verdict in the direction of others on this board, try examining your own heart and soul! Jesus did warn people like you, "Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.…" I'm the one who should be feeling empathy for you, because you have elevated the measure by which you will be judged by several notches! :smilewinkgrin:

Finally, I care not what you think or say, only I can know the depth of what is in my heart and soul, and only God will be my judge. I think there are way too many Pharisees on this board. Now I'm not calling you a Pharisee, just saying that if the toga fits, well, you get the idea!

The truth is, I don't know you from a hole in the ground, and if you are anything like what you sound like in your comments, I prefer to keep it that way. You know how there are some in the body that you just can't stomach! Well, from the little, I know of you and from what I've seen in other comments to other board members, I'd say you are not going to get many friend requests, but some brothers and sisters like that kind of fellowship!

Some friendly advice .... Next time, instead of analyzing the author of the OP, try analyzing the content, and restricting your comments to the topic at hand and not what you think the person is like in regards to their relationship with God. As I said, only God can be my judge, so butt your mind and heart of my walk! I am on target, and I'm sure you are too. We are just not at the same place in the path! But be assured, everytime I see the political problems of this country, I am excited with the thought that one day, soon, we will no longer have a clueless president leading, or misleading us! We will be under the love and rule of Jehovah Jireh, our eternal provider! :flower:

 

There are a growing number ....

.... of persons who do not read the post, but use the post as their personal dais to present their agenda.

I think we have an infestation of social vermin on the board, and we need to break out the:

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