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> > As of now, we're
>> just tithing directly to the food bank. We don't know what else to do. 



You and Squeaky have my utter and total respect, Frank.
That is LIVING your creed.
Godspeed,
Jan


> at-l] Perception/Quote
> Frank Looper mapster at charter.net

> It is so sad how true that article is. It's true about every church I've
> ever attended, if I stayed long enough to see it. It's been true about me in
> the past. It may be true about me again in the future.
> 
> The most recent church that I went to regularly takes in ~500,000 per month,
> but their outlay to local charities (foodbank, free clinic, etc.) was 400
> dollars! That's 8/100ths of 1%. My wife and I felt very comfortable and
> accepted there, but our consciences wouldn't let us stay. As of now, we're
> just tithing directly to the food bank. We don't know what else to do. There
> is one church in a nearby county that has a program which feeds ~2,000
> people on a weekly basis. However, stories like that are few and far
> between.
> 
> There is no way that Christians will ever truly convert large numbers of
> folks until we make the old saw true and "practice what we preach." Like a
> lot of things, it's a one-day-at-a-time, every day type of thing.
> 
> Frank

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