I've supported many causes over the years. When I was younger and attended church more than I do now, I gave my time as an elder and money. The Presbyterian Church supported people fighting for their human rights as well as giving hands up to people in need.
Rather than charitable giving which is giving directly to people who are in need, I support sustainable giving and support causes led by leaders who emerged from the community of need and empower people to make their causes sustainable or to solve problems. The "teach a person how to fish, rather than continually having to feed them fish" approach.
The Lenten lesson today is about Jesus continually being criticized by the Jewish elite for doing good deeds and claiming he was God. The Jews said they didn't dislike him for helping people, but weren't too crazy about him providing assistance because he was God.
They didn't buy Jesus's answer that he is the son of God. He was a charitable giver hoping that his good deeds would result in sustainability when more people chose to follow Jesus's ways.
The Presbyterians gave money to support the Angela Davis legal defense fund. She was an African American 1960s rabble rouser. That assistance infuriated the conservative members of my church that caused a split. Some of my parent's best friends ended up leaving and starting up a branch.
They were like the Jews who liked good deeds, but not all of them.
Jesus wasn't killed because he helped poor people, he was killed because he joined them. Too bad more of his followers didn't learn much about paying good deeds forward.
— alanohashi
Rather than charitable giving which is giving directly to people who are in need, I support sustainable giving and support causes led by leaders who emerged from the community of need and empower people to make their causes sustainable or to solve problems. The "teach a person how to fish, rather than continually having to feed them fish" approach.
The Lenten lesson today is about Jesus continually being criticized by the Jewish elite for doing good deeds and claiming he was God. The Jews said they didn't dislike him for helping people, but weren't too crazy about him providing assistance because he was God.
They didn't buy Jesus's answer that he is the son of God. He was a charitable giver hoping that his good deeds would result in sustainability when more people chose to follow Jesus's ways.
The Presbyterians gave money to support the Angela Davis legal defense fund. She was an African American 1960s rabble rouser. That assistance infuriated the conservative members of my church that caused a split. Some of my parent's best friends ended up leaving and starting up a branch.
They were like the Jews who liked good deeds, but not all of them.
Jesus wasn't killed because he helped poor people, he was killed because he joined them. Too bad more of his followers didn't learn much about paying good deeds forward.
— alanohashi
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