If your neighbor is besieged would you stand up for him?

If a man is homeless and trying to find a way out of this would you help
him?

If a woman has fallen on hard times because she was with a jerk would
you stand up for her?

I have and would again

yes I have helped the homeless since I was there myself and I would help
the other two too.
Christ calls us to help them

do it all the time, am a homeless advocate and every christmas and
thanksgivin i am volunteering to help feed them, attend rallies and am
always helpin the helpless, have been there myself and know what its
like to need just a help up not a hand out but a hand up

1.Absolutely
2.Have and would again.
3.Did and did not work out to well for me.

I met a guy who is in a shelter I was trying to help out and all I got
for grattitud was him getting a whole lot of women on his friends list
one of witch is a female with 88 guys in her friends list & still
adding, one of which was the guy I was trying to help as well as talking
about having a moving in together relationship and carring on to
committed relationship I think not.

CHEROKEE NOT ALL OF THE HOMELESS ARE PLAYERS SOME ARE JUST DOWN AND OUT,
I BEEN THERE MYSELF.

I know that. I just hope the next homeless person I meet isn't a player
or a jerk.

I always helped people whenever I could. Makes me feel real good
inside.

Very nice responses.

I will say.

Even though a person does not shout his name when they help another by
so helping even the least of us they have stood up for Christ.

Works open the gate not words.

Amen to that

yes I love to help when I can and I expect nothing in return

Good to go.

I have and will continue to do so..for all...

Yes.

"I will say.

Even though a person does not shout his name when they help another by
so helping even the least of us they have stood up for Christ."

Wow, I wasn't aware that Christians had a monopoly on philanthropy. Who
knew?



"Works open the gate not words."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the Bible say that if one doesn't
'repent' and believe, no amount of good deeds will 'save' them?

-Kerry O.

Question:
If I say I do it because I'm such a good Christian, does it add or does
it take away from the good work?


If I do it out of the goodness of my heart, without thinking about the
consequences it might have after death, does it add or does it take away
from the good work?

Invisible writes:

" Question:
If I say I do it because I'm such a good Christian, does it add or does
it take away from the good work?"

Forgetting for that you're using this question to evade *my* question,
I'll nevertheless say, "It depends on what's in your heart when you do
so."

If you're doing it for recognition only, yes, I believe it taints the
gift by co-opting the pain of those less fortunate as a means to one of
your selfish ends. It's especially objectionable if you're using it as a
PR ploy against another group whose beliefs you secretly can't stand.


"If I do it out of the goodness of my heart, without thinking about the
consequences it might have after death, does it add or does it take away
from the good work?"

Think Occam's Razor and Operation Blessing here. Everyone knows the
popular answers to rhetorical questions like this one, just as everyone
can usually give a pretty accurate guess as to who is really
altruistic.

-Kerry O.

'pretty accurate guess'

Another way to 'Judge' someone based on how you already feel about them.

Enter with a preconcived notion, learn nothing.

I would Adventure. I have been homeless before and know what it feels
like to be tossed out on the street. I have had to stand up for this
woman whose husband left her for his first wife. She was destitute and
had to sell her stuff in front of her house. He left her and she didn't
have an income for seven months. I bought some of the stuff and let the
other ladies at the nursing home know and they bought some stuff, too. I
used to pick up hitch hikers because I used to be one. I helped a cousin
with my dad who had too much liquor from his wife stabbing him with a
butcher knife. When she found out that he was fooling around on him we
helped him again when she found the 8 ball skillet and was going to
brain him. He helped him when his son was firing a 22 rifle at him
because his son found out what he did. My dad and me was pinned down by
rifle at that time. Dad said, "Let's get the hell out of here before we
get killed." I have made it a point to stay away from those relatives. I
have some relatives that still feud like that.