All I remember us discussing/have in my notes from Tuesday is Gleaning.
Gleaning was God's way of providing to the poor; harvesters would leave some behind and the poor would follow and pick it up.
Now, I have a problem with this. Instead of letting the poor follow behind you and pick your crap up off the ground, why didn't you just pick it all and give them a small percentage at the end? IS THAT SO HARD?
Plus, why are we so greedy that we can't do that today? We donate all this money to the poor and stuff especially in church every Sunday they ask for a collection (I don't know about other churches but the Catholic Church does and that percentage alone is HUGE). How come we're sending all this money in but NOTHING is happening? WHO IS TAKING IT?
Gleaning was God's way of providing to the poor; harvesters would leave some behind and the poor would follow and pick it up.
Now, I have a problem with this. Instead of letting the poor follow behind you and pick your crap up off the ground, why didn't you just pick it all and give them a small percentage at the end? IS THAT SO HARD?
Plus, why are we so greedy that we can't do that today? We donate all this money to the poor and stuff especially in church every Sunday they ask for a collection (I don't know about other churches but the Catholic Church does and that percentage alone is HUGE). How come we're sending all this money in but NOTHING is happening? WHO IS TAKING IT?
1 comment:
good questions!
for the first i think it's probably so the poor doesn't get lazy. The Bible says 'you don't work, you don't eat' ... but it's not always that easy so God makes provision for those not fortunate to have land themselves to farm on.
as for where the money goes... i don't know. our church costs quite a lot of money just to run and mortgage and paying staff and programs etc. the money from that that does go to the poor makes but a small dent in society.
thats why i like some organizations a lot... instead of giving somebody a fish they are teaching them how to fish for themselves... so to speak
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