Pastor challenged them with $100 bills. They did the rest.

Got to have something for these carnal, spoiled, suburban, nominal, so-called Christians to do in order to placate themselves. How about considering Isaiah 58?

What a concept...bypass government and help people directly. Then we don't have 70% of the money siphoned off by layers of overpaid, unionized bureaucracy, and that money can instead go to the people who really need it.

Junior wrote:

Got to have something for these carnal, spoiled, suburban, nominal, so-called Christians to do in order to placate themselves. How about considering Isaiah 58?

Isaiah 58:6-8
6 "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness [a] will go before you,
and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
Did these people not feed the hungry, and clothe the naked? Let's not forget John 8:7, which says "But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them,'If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.'" It's not our place to judge - God will take care of that.

Junior wrote:

Got to have something for these carnal, spoiled, suburban, nominal, so-called Christians to do in order to placate themselves. How about considering Isaiah 58?

Every once in awhile we read about something positive that involved entire families, friends and neighbors coming together to benefit the less fortunate and yet we can always count on a concrete mind that's been thoroughly mixed up and permanently set to show up and offer proof of they're condition.

Interesting congregation, too. Quite socially active.
http://www.kingofkingswoodburymn.org/about_us

Part of the St. Paul Area Synod of the ECLA:
http://spas-elca.org/

Junior wrote:

Got to have something for these carnal, spoiled, suburban, nominal, so-called Christians to do in order to placate themselves. How about considering Isaiah 58?

What have you done for others lately? Judge them would be my guess.

Ack wrote:

What a concept...bypass government and help people directly. Then we don't have 70% of the money siphoned off by layers of overpaid, unionized bureaucracy, and that money can instead go to the people who really need it.

Your trying to foist a political agenda on the story just makes me want to cry. That's squalid.

I love these stories! People should do their homework though and they would find that a pastor in California did this years ago and wrote a book about it called, oddly enough, Kingdom Assignment. Since then every one from Oprah Winfrey to the local pastors have been taking credit for the idea. Don't get me wrong, I dig it that this idea is spreading, but please pastors and reporters, give credit where credit is due. And praise God that the Kingdom is advancing!

Ack wrote:

What a concept...bypass government and help people directly. Then we don't have 70% of the money siphoned off by layers of overpaid, unionized bureaucracy, and that money can instead go to the people who really need it.

In fact, I'm pretty sure that's what Jesus wanted.

Bob the Bilderberg wrote:

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In fact, I'm pretty sure that's what Jesus wanted.

For trolls to latch onto a story like this, making it something not about charity but about their political axes to grind?