Is there an explanation, a cause, for the government starting and growing the welfare monstrosity we have today?<\/p>\n
Yes!<\/p>\n
For most of our history the churches of America helped people in real need, with personal, hands-on assistance.<\/p>\n
And help usually included addressing the spiritual source and spiritual solution to the people’s problems.<\/p>\n
When a real person helps a real person with a real need, there is real accountability built into the relationship.<\/p>\n
So what happened?<\/p>\n
People in the churches became comfortable with American prosperity.<\/p>\n
They left behind the call to deny ourselves and help others.<\/p>\n
Instead, their resources shifted to buying more stuff and buying insurance to protect it and storing up for retirement—the American dream.<\/p>\n
So, money that was supposed to be used for Biblical welfare, was committed elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Helping the needy became someone else’s job, funded by some budget.<\/p>\n
First it was the church’s budget, then the government’s budget.<\/p>\n
And now it seems irreversible.<\/p>\n
Irreversible, unless Christians reverse course, financially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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