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AROUND BOISE  Q & A

(Answers for Your Soul and Spirit Survival)

QUESTION: 

Should churches stop helping persons in need? Does “get away from here” reveal a new Christian trend emerging around Boise? Do we preserve the dignity of persons in dire financial hardship or strip them to shame by disobeying Jesus’ command in Matthew 6:3?

ANSWER:

There IS a new attitude trend by pastors toward poor, vulnerable, or needy persons inside church and in the public community. Whether for lack of funds to continue helping or just tired and overwhelmed by the unending numbers of persons experiencing dire financial hardship, persons are being sent away while some churches still try to help as best they can — but disobey Jesus’ heart doing it.

Recently, a Christian sister and I were discussing Jesus’ commands concerning persons in need versus failed attitudes and actions by us who represent Jesus in our conduct toward persons in need. We, also, remember there are millions of pastors and Christians in churches who have rescued so many in financial hardship and other troubles. This was a different case. 

 

She told me of a church that had a very cold sign out front which got straight to the point — these words are as best I can remember, but they were absent the heart or mind of Jesus Christ and His churches:

“If you want help go to Boise Rescue Mission or Love Inc.”

That’s all it said.

I’ve called my friend and when she gets back to me, if there is an adjustment, it will be posted here.

Within a week of her telling me about that sign,  I was worshiping with a church that rents space from another church. The church they rent from put this sign up for their own congregation and I saw and took the picture of this sign. It was a completely different church than my friend told me about.  I don’t know the name of the church my friend spoke of.

• Is the “shooing away” of the poor and vulnerable a new Christian trend from pastors in Boise and Treasure Valley?

• Is this a turn around from the “everyone welcome” signs that have been used for decades to get people to come into the churches and then join those churches?

• How does the replacement of ‘everyone welcome’ change marketing for church growth?

• How does shutting down your help to the needy threaten your 501-c3 tax exempt status as a public service and social charity?
  

ANSWER:

“Lord Jesus Christ is, (personally) shaking up our perspectives about church, ministry, and preachers and the way we conduct ourselves as representing Him in each.” — 1999 to present — From the Lord Jesus Christ

We must humble ourselves to accept Jesus’ purposes and His identity for his very own thing which He named “Church”. Especially, Jesus’ heart for those in dire financial hardship crosses with the political attitudes of the hard-hearted who are angry at the poor and want to blame them for all the country’s problems. That’s why Jesus made our attitude toward the poor as being one of His disciples a “stand out” trumpet call for everyone. When we assimilate into the sinner-public’s feelings about the vulnerable … we betray our Lord and render His Gospel utterly useless.

Expect to see a lot of new Christian trends. God will transform things for showng off the way He thinks so much higher than we do about people. His love is higher than the Heaven and we cannot understand such a pure love. Our love is ALWAYS judgmental and rationed out by our personal interrogation of vulnerable persons as we seek to know, first, WHY ARE YOU IN THIS CONDITION. We call it “stewardship”, but Jesus calls it setting yourself as a standard of self-approved righteousness that gives oneself permission to demean and withhold the love Jesus would and wants to do toward the person. 

Expect to see other new Christian trends that are NOT good. Yet, to fulfill His prophecies, God will allow us to do our own thing in church — although it will not be good. This process weeds out by free-will that God has given us, those who love Jesus in sincerity and those who don’t. Simple.

If you just re-read the New Testament of our Lord Jesus, anyone will be able to see for yourself how far away we have come from what He died and rose for — people directly loving God and one another, in His name — meaning loving as He loves each of us.

The poster pictured in this message, the other poster I was informed of, and many other new trends will be manifested concerning “church” in these last days before Jesus returns — both  blessed attitudes and hellish ones.