@ Imperfect
I read you like to help and have good ideas on sharing other´s money... I believe you give and share (I don´t get enough for my own life, by the way).
Do you think AM I someone´s else business? I mean, is it other people´s my responsibility to work, get food and own shelter?
Poverty, essencially, comes from laziness. I know some have been hindered schooling, but some where unwilling to study and others like to be helped.
I have been helped, I have received money when losing my job and also after divorce but, that was not that type of charity you have mentioned (I guess).
I have seen how drunk people attend the church of my pastor Eduacrdo just to receive food. I have told him he need to preach on them, not just feeding their mouth, but with spiritual food (which is more important) and I have witnessed the hypocrisy of these needy people inside Eduardo´s church (He is the type of person who gives, instead of getting his roof repared) (I know it because I have slept in their house more than one night and know many things, as his son).
there are needy persons in USA, in China, Venezuela, etc. They need to LEARN how to get a job, education, to get the materil things THEY THINK THEY NEED. I can tell you I see how people doing drugs live. They suck those drugs instead of eating. They sleep at the streets without thinking what they´re doing and, this morning, I saw one on them with her daughter sit on her lap and, her little girl showed some tears kept inside her eyes. When I noticed them I spoke, surprised: Is that your daughter? She said "Yes". I addressed an additional comment: Do you know why she is about to cry? I guessed she told you why...
That woman in drugs knew I guessed well: Her daughter is unhappy her mother sleeps on those streets. Her family tries to get her back, but she is unwilling to live in the conditions her family would ask to deal the drug problem (she´s dried, her body is losing weight and is not nice looking). How much money she need? (No money needed, but persons on the outreached fields).
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Money is misspread, I guess. Many people is dying there, around and here.
Does money help the needy?
How much more it is needed?
Hopeless and HOMELESS are RESPONSIBLE for some mistakes they did. Not all! But we share responsibilities when hurting, and NOT HELPING THE NEEDY (I agree with you, at some degree) But THEY HAVE TO HELP THEMSELVES, firstly.
When this happens, ORG + greedy churches appeared: "I will do your job" (Sure?)
Friends, brothers or sisters: The job and great commission is our, direct, PERSONAL (like this man said he did).