Jeremiah 22:16

I think the most important principle is you can’t effectively help needy people you don’t know.…

Inspirational Thought of the Day: Knowing God means we begin to have His heart for His people, particularly the poor and needy. Scripture of the Day: Jeremiah 22:16 (NET) “He upheld the cause of the poor and needy. So things went well for Judah.’ The LORD says, ‘That is a good example of what it means […]…

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It is our shame and disgrace today that so many Christians–I will be more specific: so many of the soundest and most orthodox Christians–go through this world in the spirit of the priest and the Levite in our Lord’s parable, seeing human needs all around them, but (after a pious wish, and perhaps a prayer, that God might meet those needs) averting their eyes and passing by on the other side. Nor is it the spirit of those Christians–alas, they are many–whose ambition in life seems limited to building a nice middle-class Christian home, and making nice middle-class Christian friends, and bringing up their children in nice middle-class Christian ways, and who leave the submiddle-class sections of the community, Christian and non-Christian, to get on by themselves. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor–spending and being spent–to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care and concern, to do good to others–and not just their own friends–in whatever way there seems need.…

If we don’t reach out in our giving, as individuals and as churches, we miss out on a central aspect of biblical teaching: God’s concern for the poor and needy.…