2006-09-22 13:12:33 · 18 answers · asked by man of ape 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good answers, but do you think they would pay your bills or some of them
2006-09-22 13:30:21 · update #1
well my church has for some...and I really don't know what their criteria for helping one is...but I have been a member and in high standing with my church for around 17 years and when we were both out of work for 2 and a half months we received no help at all , while I have seen others that just have been there for a few weeks get help....so I don't know what makes them pick one and not the other....but yes all churches should help their members as they are able to....
2006-09-22 13:22:02 · answer #1 · answered by shiningon 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. They also helped my family when we were dragged through court by some greedy lawyers and bankers off and on for 15 years. I don't think much of lawyers and bankers, by the way. They have also helped my parents since my mom had to stop working for a year to help take care of my dad, who is recovering from a stroke. If you think about it, if everyone would come back to church, it is about the best way to organize resources and handle communication and much cheaper than most of the ways the government agencies try to do things. By the way, our Church welfare system is based on having people maintain a reasonably spiritually active lifestyle, and you have to help put back into the system by helping with other assignments or callings. It doesn't require that you pay back a certain amount, or that you have paid a certain amount of tithing, but rather that you are willing to work things out with the bishop. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by the way.
2006-09-22 20:21:01 · answer #2 · answered by Cookie777 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, my church does it all the time. There was one sister at my church who is a loan officer...she had the money coming once the deals closed, but meanwhile, she got evicted. Our church paid for her living expenses, someone transported her back and forth to work, I was assigned to take her children to school every morning at 7:30 (20 miles from where I lived), and she eventually got back on her feet. I thank God to have been available for His service in her life.
Because of the way people can be in todays society, the church has to respond wisely and look at each situation and helps according to the need moreso than the request.
Be blessed!
2006-09-22 20:30:34 · answer #3 · answered by ConcernedMom 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is a great question! I have noticed that Christian churches impose all these rules of morality and some want you forcely to go to church (Filipino Church of Christ /Iglesia Ni Crhisto) twice a week, but when you loose your job, you are on your own. What a paradox.
2006-09-22 20:22:23 · answer #4 · answered by Morgan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most would give assistance.
1st Corinthians
Chapter 13:13
But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love. Love is charity.
Charity
In 1 Peter 4:8 it states that "charity shall cover the multitude of sin. ... The very act of charity prevents sin in both us and in others. ...
Jesus gave us two new commandments to merge all together
Luke 10:27
'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,' and 'your neighbor as yourself.'"
Malachi 3:10
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. (tithes are also used for charity-local Church can't give if it has no storehouse to give from)
The more you give- the more you will receive.
I think that applies to this life and for sure- in eternity.
2006-09-22 20:33:53 · answer #5 · answered by cork 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
help with food and rent if needed...but if I am living with a big budget..i would first not burden the church( people).
Cut backs would we first and foremost.
We have no clergy to pay so if there are fund available for temporary use my friends would help and I would make arrangements to pay back or barter( exchange work for food)
2006-09-22 20:23:32 · answer #6 · answered by kdwcnliz2 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i don't know if my church would cuz i just starting going there. however i wouldn't worry to much about it an I know that God will always take care of me and my family.
25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[b]?
Matthew 6
2006-09-22 20:26:19 · answer #7 · answered by rachel5576 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My church paid for my mom, my sister and I for 9 months.
2006-09-22 20:57:24 · answer #8 · answered by A J 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it has happened before. Churches sometimes do really great things for their people as God takes care of his own.
2006-09-22 20:15:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Mormon church does all the time. And it has it's own built in Welfare system and job placement.
2006-09-22 20:24:58 · answer #10 · answered by jiggliemon 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋