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Offline Colin Michael

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Re: Well look what caleb did now
« Reply #50 on: May 27, 2009, 11:46:40 PM »
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I don't know, call me unsympathetic. I think Room in the Inn does a good job with this kind of stuff; I've worked with them before. It's just kind of starting to be hopeless: the generations that are stuck on the streets or in the ghetto. If you study the psychology of genetics, the homeless are creating more homeless and they just stay here, unable to move out of it, while someone else might come here from overseas and work there way to at least the middle class in their lifetime with no education.
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Re: Well look what caleb did now
« Reply #51 on: May 28, 2009, 03:12:04 AM »
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If you're poor in America (as in living on the streets) its usually either the results of drugs or unwise usage of your money.
This ignores the huge percentage of homeless people with mental illness.  If the church did a better job of taking care of the poor and sick, then the government wouldn't have to try to do it (and fail).  And the result would be bringing glory to God.

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Re: Well look what caleb did now
« Reply #52 on: May 28, 2009, 06:36:24 AM »
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I could not agree with this more.

Of course, the church's efforts in this regard are also hampered when people decide they're going to do their own thing instead of working communally with the other believers in the community.

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Re: Well look what caleb did now
« Reply #53 on: May 28, 2009, 12:15:35 PM »
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I could not agree with this more.

Of course, the church's efforts in this regard are also hampered when people decide they're going to do their own thing instead of working communally with the other believers in the community.

What if we spent a day of Nationals to go to a soup kitchen or other shelter to help and suspend the games for that day.   :)
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Re: Well look what caleb did now
« Reply #54 on: May 28, 2009, 12:32:44 PM »
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It'd be pretty cool if there was a donation bucket at Nats that went to a ministry of the hosts' choice...

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