Helping the Poor and Reaching the Lost

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Helping the PoorandReaching the Lost
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Who Is Responsible for the Poor?

• Do not tell me, as a good man did today, of my
  obligation to put all poor men in good
  situations. Are they my poor?
• Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord,
  Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my
  possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated
  anybody out of anything, I will pay back four
  times the amount.
• Luke 198

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• In reply Jesus said A man was going down from
  Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands
  of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes,
  beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A
  priest happened to be going down the same road,
  and when he saw the man, he passed by on the
  other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the
  place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

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• But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the
  man was and when he saw him, he took pity on
  him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds,
  pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on
  his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care
  of him. The next day he took out two silver coins
  and gave them to the innkeeper. Look after him,
  he said, and when I return, I will reimburse you
  for any extra expense you may have.

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• Which of these three do you think was a
  neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of
  robbers?
• The expert in the law replied, The one who had
  mercy on him.
• Jesus told him, Go and do likewise.
• Luke 1030-37

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• The impious Galileans support not only their
  own poor but ours as well everyone can see that
  our people lack aid from us.
• The Roman emperor Julian

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• It is our care of the helpless, our practice of
  loving kindness that brands us in the eyes of
  many of our opponents. Only look, they say,
  look how they love one another!
• Tertullian

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• Most of our brother Christians showed unbounded
  love and loyalty never sparing themselves and
  thinking only of one another. Heedless of the
  danger, they took charge of the sick, attending
  to their every need and ministering to them in
  Christ, and with them departed this life serenely
  happy

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• for they were infected by others with the
  disease, drawing on themselves the sickness of
  their neighbors and cheerfully accepting their
  pains. Many, in nursing and curing others,
  transferred their death to themselves and died in
  their stead.
• Dionysius

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• You trample on the poor and force him to give
  you grain. Therefore, though you have built stone
  mansions, you will not live in them though you
  have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink
  their wine. But let justice roll on like a
  river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
  
• Amos 511, 24

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• James 5
• Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail
  because of the misery that is coming upon you.
  Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your
  clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded You
  have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The
  wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed
  your fields are

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• crying out against you. The cries of the
  harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord
  Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and
  self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in
  the day of slaughter. You have condemned and
  murdered innocent men, who were not opposing you.
• James 51-6

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• When you reap the harvest of your land, do not
  reap to the very edges of your field or gather
  the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over
  your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes
  that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the
  alien. I am the Lord your God.
• Leviticus 199-10

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• Give generously to the poor and do so without
  a grudging heart then because of this the Lord
  your God will bless you in all your work and in
  everything you put your hand to. There will
  always be poor people in the land. Therefore I
  command you to be openhanded toward your brothers
  and toward the poor and needy in your land.
• Deuteronomy 1510-11

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• He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord,
  and he will reward him for what he has done.
• Proverbs 1917
• A generous man will himself be blessed, for he
  shares his food with the poor.
• Proverbs 229

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• He who gives to the poor will lack nothing, but
  he who closes his eyes to them receives many
  curses.
• Proverbs 2827
• I want you to share your food with the hungry
  and to welcome poor wanderers into your homes.
  Give clothes to those who need them, and do not
  hide from relatives who need your help.
• Isaiah 587, NLT

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• Feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. Then
  your light will shine out from the darkness, and
  the darkness around you will be as bright as
  noon. The Lord will guide you continually, giving
  you water when you are dry and restoring your
  strength. You will be like a well-watered garden,
  like an ever-flowing spring.
• Isaiah 5810-11, NLT

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• During this time, some prophets traveled from
  Jerusalem to Antioch. One of them named Agabus
  stood up in one of the meetings to predict by the
  Spirit that a great famine was coming upon the
  entire Roman world. So the believers in Antioch
  decided to send relief to the brothers and
  sisters in Judea, everyone giving as much as they
  could. This they did, entrusting their gifts to
  Barnabas and Saul to take to the elders of the
  church in Jerusalem.
• Acts 1127-30, NLT

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• In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha
  (which, when translated, is Dorcas), who was
  always doing good and helping the poor.
• Acts 936

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• He Cornelius the centurion and all his
  family were devout and God-fearing he gave
  generously to those in need and prayed to God
  regularly.
• An angel appears in a vision and tells him,
  Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up
  as a memorial offering before God.
• Acts 102-4

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• All they apostles and church leaders asked
  was that we should continue to remember the poor,
  the very thing I was eager to do.
• Galatians 210

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• Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and
  faultless is this to look after orphans and
  widows in their distress and to keep oneself from
  being polluted by the world.
• James 127

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• What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to
  have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save
  him? Suppose a brother or sister is without
  clothes and daily food. If one of you says to
  him, Go, I wish you well keep warm and well
  fed, but does nothing about his physical needs,
  what good is it?
• James 214-16

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• Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we
  ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If
  anyone has material possessions and sees his
  brother in need but has no pity on him, how can
  the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us
  not love with words or tongue but with actions
  and in truth. This then is how we know that we
  belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at
  rest in his presence.
• 1 John 316-19

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• Come, you who are blessed by my Father, take
  your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you
  since the creation of the world. For I was hungry
  and you gave me something to eat.
• Matthew 2534-35

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• Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the
  eternal fire prepared for the devil and his
  angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing
  to eat.
• Matthew 2541-42

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• Do not take advantage of a widow or an orphan.
  If you do and they cry out to me, I will
  certainly hear their cry.
• Exodus 2222-23
• Do not oppress an alien you yourselves know how
  it feels to be aliens, because you were aliens in
  Egypt.
• Exodus 239

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• Do not show favoritism to a poor man in his
  lawsuit.Do not deny justice to your poor people
  in their lawsuits.
• Exodus 233, 6

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• My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord
  Jesus Christ, dont show favoritism. Suppose a
  man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring
  and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby
  clothes also comes in. If you show special
  attention to the man wearing fine clothes and
  say, Heres a good seat for you, but say to the
  poor man, You stand there or Sit on the floor
  by my feet, have you not discriminated among
  yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

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• Listen, my dear brothers Has not God chosen
  those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be
  rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he
  promised those who love him? But you have
  insulted the poor. Is it not the rich who are
  exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are
  dragging you into court? Are they not the ones
  who are slandering the noble name of him to whom
  you belong?
• James 2

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Are We Helping or Subsidizing the Poor?

• He who loves pleasure will become poor.
• Proverbs 2117

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• I went past the field of the sluggard, past the
  vineyard of the man who lacks judgment thorns
  had come up everywhere, the ground was covered
  with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.

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• I applied my heart to what I observed and
  learned a lesson from what I saw A little sleep,
  a little slumber, a little folding of the hands
  to rest and poverty will come on you like a
  bandit and scarcity like an armed man.
• Proverbs 2430-34

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• Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands
  bring wealth.
• Proverbs 104
• A sluggard does not plow in season so at
  harvest time he looks but finds nothing.
• Proverbs 204

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• The fool folds his hands and ruins himself.
• Ecclesiastes 45
• If a man will not work, he shall not eat.
  2 Thessalonians 310
• The laborers appetite works for him his hunger
  drives him on.
• Proverbs 1626

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• Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless
  man goes hungry.
• Proverbs 1915
• A man reaps what he sows.
• Galatians 67

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• Give proper recognition to those widows who are
  really in need. But if a widow has children or
  grandchildren, these should learn first of all to
  put their religion into practice by caring for
  their own family and so repaying their parents
  and grandparents, for this is pleas-ing to God.
  The widow who is really in need and left all
  alone puts her hope in God and continues night
  and day to pray and to ask God for help.
  1 Timothy 53-5

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• Let thine alms sweat in thy hands, until thou
  knowest to whom thou shouldst give.
• The Didache(2nd CenturyChristian guidebook)
• God divided the hand into fingers so that money
  would slip through.
• Martin Luther

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• Isaiah 58
• Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen
  to loose the chains of injustice and untie the
  cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and
  break every yoke?
• Is it not to share your food with the hungry
  and to provide the poor wanderer with
  shelterwhen you see the naked, to clothe him,
  and not to turn away from your own flesh and
  blood?

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• Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
  and your healing will quickly appear then your
  righteousness will go before you, and the glory
  of the LORD will be your rear guard.
• Then you will call, and the LORD will answer
  you will cry for help, and he will say Here am
  I.

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• If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with
  the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if
  you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and
  satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your
  light will rise in the darkness, and your night
  will become like the noonday.
• Isaiah 586-10

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• If I give all I possess to the poorbut have not
  love, I gain nothing.
• 1 Corinthians 133
• Share with Gods people who are in need.
  Practice hospitality.
• Romans 1213

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• If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor,
  he too will cry out and not be answered.
• Proverbs 2113

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• He King Josiah defended the cause of the poor
  and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what
  it means to know me?
• Jeremiah 2216

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Giving and the Great Commission

• What I received I passed on to you as of first
  importance that Christ died for our sins
  according to the Scriptures, that he was buried,
  that he was raised on the third day according to
  the Scriptures.
• 1 Corinthians 153

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• With your blood you purchased men for God from
  every tribe and language and people and nation.
  You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to
  serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.
• Revelation 59-10

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• After this I looked and there before me was a
  great multitude that no one could count, from
  every nation, tribe, people and language,
  standing before the throne and in front of the
  Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were
  holding palm branches in their hands.
• Revelation 79

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Ed, Pete and Jim
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Nate, Marj, Kathy Steve Saint
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• Nate Saint
• As we weigh the future and seek the will of
  God, does it seem right that we should hazard our
  lives for just a few savages? As we ask ourselves
  this question, we realize it is the simple
  intimation of the prophetic Word that there shall
  be some from every tribe in His presence in the
  last day, and in our hearts we feel that it is
  pleasing to Him that we

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• should interest ourselves in making an opening
  into the Auca prison for Christ.
• As we have a high old time this Christmas, may
  we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as
  they hurtle headlong into the Christless night
  without ever a chance. May we be moved with
  compassion as our Lord was.

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• May we shed tears of repentance for these we
  have failed to bring out of darkness. Beyond the
  smiling scenes of Bethlehem may we see the
  crushing agony of Golgotha. May God give us a new
  vision of His will concerning the lost and our
  responsibility.
• Nate Saint

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We acted badly, badly until they brought us
God's carvings. Now, seeing His markings and
walking His trail, we live happily and in
peace.
Mincaye
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Marj Saint
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• For a long time you children have prayed for
  the Aucas. Now Auntie Rachel and Auntie Betty are
  living down in the jungle with the Aucas.
  Someday, perhaps soon, you may meet some of the
  men who killed Daddy. Daddy would want you to
  love them and thank our heavenly Father that our
  prayers for these Indians are being answered.
• Marj Saint, 1959, epilogue, Jungle Pilot

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• Kim and Dyuwi (who took part in the spearings and
  killings) baptize Kathy Saint while Steve waits
  to be next.

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• Mincaye with Marj, wife of Nate Saint

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• Jim Elliots house?

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• Amazon.com, reader review of book by Elisabeth
  Elliot, re living with the tribe
• The continuing naivete crisis....Nov. 2005
• Why can't these poor indigenous tribes just be
  left alone? Why all this proselytizing? So they
  can become t-shirt-wearing indigents who hang
  around Westernized settlements? They had beliefs
  of their own, for heaven's sake! Irishgirl
  (Washingon, DC)

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We acted badly, badly until they brought us
God's carvings. Now, seeing His markings and
walking His trail, we live happily and in peace.
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• Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will
  be saved. How, then, can they call on the one
  they have not believed in? And how can they
  believe in the one of whom they have not heard?
  And how can they hear without someone preaching
  to them? And how can they preach unless they are
  sent?
• Romans 1013-15

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• www.theseedcompany.org/ projects

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• Who wouldnt like to end each day, putting our
  heads on our pillows, confidently saying, I know
  this day my life has counted strategically for
  Christs global cause, especially for those
  currently beyond the reach of the gospel?
  
• David Bryant
• No matter what else you did, you brought us
  the gospeland that is all that matters.
• Samuel Kunihop

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• In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray
  with joy because of your partnership in the
  gospel from the first day until now.
• Philippians 14-5

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Ministry Financesand Fund-Raising Ethical
Concerns
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• Whoever believes that giving is an easy matter,
  makes a mistake it is a matter of very great
  difficulty, provided that gifts are made with
  wisdom, and are not scattered haphazard and by
  caprice.
• Seneca

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Giving to Secular Organizations?

• Jesus replied Love the Lord your God with all
  your heart and with all your soul and with all
  your mind. This is the first and greatest
  commandment.
• Matthew 2237-38

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Giving to the Local Church

• On the first day of every week, each one of you
  should set aside a sum of money in keeping with
  his income, saving it up, so that when I come no
  collections will have to be made.
• 1 Corinthians 162

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• There were no needy persons among them. For from
  time to time those who owned lands or houses sold
  them, brought the money from the sales and put it
  at the apostles feet, and it was distributed to
  anyone as he had need.
• Acts 434-35

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• They did not dare to put their offering into the
  hands of the needy, nor give it with lofty
  condescension, but they laid it at the feet of
  the apostles and made them masters and
  distributors of the gift. What a man needed was
  then taken from the treasurer of the community,
  not from the private property of individuals.
  Thereby the givers did not become arrogant.
• John Chrysostom, a.d. 390

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Pastors and Money

• Anyone who receives instruction in the word must
  share all good things with his instructor.
• Galatians 66

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• 1 Corinthians 9
• This is my defense to those who sit in
  judgment on me. Dont we have the right to food
  and drink? Dont we have the right to take a
  believing wife along with us, as do the other
  apostles and the Lords brothers and Cephas? Or
  is it only I and Barnabas who must work for a
  living?

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• Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who
  plants a vineyard and does not eat of its grapes?
  Who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk?
  Do I say this merely from a human point of view?
  Doesnt the Law say the same thing? For it is
  written in the Law of Moses Do not muzzle an ox
  while it is treading out the grain. Is it about
  oxen that God is concerned? Surely he says this
  for us, doesnt he?

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• Yes, this was written for us, because when the
  plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they
  ought to do so in the hope of sharing in the
  harvest. If we have sown spiritual seed among
  you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest
  from you? If others have this right of support
  from you, shouldnt we have it all the more?
• 1 Corinthians 93-12

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• The Lord has commanded that those who preach the
  gospel should receive their living from the
  gospel.
• 1 Corinthians 914

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• The elders who direct the affairs of the church
  well are worthy of double honor, especially those
  whose work is preaching and teaching. The worker
  deserves his wages.
• 1 Timothy 517-18

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• Be shepherds of Gods flock that is under your
  care, serving as overseersnot because you must,
  but because you are willing, as God wants you to
  be not greedy for money, but eager to serve.
• 1 Peter 52

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• Not given to drunkenness, not violent but
  gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
• 1 Timothy 33
• What then is my reward? Just this that in
  preaching the gospel I may offer it free of
  charge, and so not make use of my rights in
  preaching it.
• 1 Corinthians 918

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• For even the Son of Man did not come to be
  served, but to serve, and to give his life as a
  ransom for many.
• Mark 1045

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• Many good, godly men have destroyed themselves
  and their ministries when they felt they had to
  become fund-raisers. Once they start chasing
  money, something twists inside and their message
  and ministry begin to ring hollow.
• Kings and Priests, David High