reply to post by Lilitu
Lilitu, your silly
First off, I don't think Bush is a Chrisitan, he's too anti-Christ, not doing the things Christ said we should do. Yeshua said to love each other,
turn the other cheek, pray for your enemies. Bush is blasting them and bombing them, they may not even really be our enemies. What the church has
become (from being twisted by politicians) is not as effective and productive and Christlike as it should be.
There are churches that do great things like feeding and clothing homeless people, feeding and clothing starving people in Africa, not because they
have to, but because they want to. My dad is a great example of a good pastor, he was a plumber and hired homeless people for minimum wage to work for
him digging ditches and putting in pipe, we owned some aprtments and my dad would let them live there for a reasonable price, my dad never took money
from the church, the church was right accross the street from the mission, every month we would give out hotdogs and hambergers and food and stuff, we
also had a food pantry (as most churches do) and we would deliver food to needy families. In the church we had a coffee shop where all the homeless
people would come and drink coffee and eat food. My family supported other families, buying them clothes and helping them with rent, buying them food,
they continue to do this to this day even though my dad is'nt a pastor anymore. My friends growing up were drug dealers, prostitutes, homless people,
childmolesters and thieves, most of them are working and doing real well in life, there lives have change completely around for the better. That my
friend is what a church and what Christians are supposed to be like. My dad was a very well respected man because of the Christ like love he showed in
the dangerous nieghborhood where I grew up. The other churches never helped us do anything though, pretty sad thing, we would ask and they were too
afraid to go to our side of the tracks and help out.
Christianity isn't all bad if it's centered around Christ, if it's centered around money it becomes as bad as the rest of the world, money is a big
corruptor. Yeshua said that it is easier for really huge goofy looking animal to go through the hole in a needle than for a rich man to become a part
of Christianity. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything you have just so you can help someone else, if we all did that the world would be a
better place.
-Jimmy