Comments on: Which one is it, Jesus? http://www.uffizimission.org/postmodernism/which-one-is-it-jesus/ Rooms for Union, Incarnation, and Friendship Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:38:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Jeff http://www.uffizimission.org/postmodernism/which-one-is-it-jesus/#comment-46 Jeff Fri, 16 May 2008 16:35:41 +0000 http://www.uffizimission.org/postmodernism/which-one-is-it-jesus/#comment-46 Thanks Heather for your thoughts - I am surrounded now by families on the west side without health care, and of course our homeless friends who often have none (and no housing). We are starting a commission (via the Turner Foundation) on the poor soon, and I will print this off for our consideration. I don't know about the government, but we can certainly learn to care for "our neighbors" within just miles of us every day! Thanks Heather for your thoughts - I am surrounded now by families on the west side without health care, and of course our homeless friends who often have none (and no housing).

We are starting a commission (via the Turner Foundation) on the poor soon, and I will print this off for our consideration.

I don’t know about the government, but we can certainly learn to care for “our neighbors” within just miles of us every day!

]]> By: Heather http://www.uffizimission.org/postmodernism/which-one-is-it-jesus/#comment-45 Heather Thu, 15 May 2008 04:28:59 +0000 http://www.uffizimission.org/postmodernism/which-one-is-it-jesus/#comment-45 Here are my thoughts on poverty. Here's the shocker...I am completely and fully in support of insisting that our government takes care of the basic needs of the people -- for example, health care, which is one of the number one things driving people to poverty. I believe as Christians and Americans we should insist that we - us - the tax payers - each and everyone one of us - insist that people have basic healthcare and housing. I do not fully subscribe to any political party, because I cannot find one that matches up to Jesus' instructions to us. We should be insisting that our government - the government of a people that overwhelmingly claim to be Christian - no matter which side of the aisle - start taking care of their neighbors! One way to end the tyranny of the health care system which leads and leaves many people to poverty is to insist on loving our neighbors as ourselves and making sure as a nation as christians that we systematically care for our neighbors and then we in the church can fill in the gaps because there will always be gaps. Right now, there are not gaps, there are oceans and abysses. But, at this point, help for the poor is for the lucky ones. And, the lucky ones are being helped by christian organizations. But, so many are out in the streets because they cannot get medications properly for mental illnesses and physical illnesses that they need to survive in this world. I have a college education, got sick, lost my job and we lost everything, except we were lucky. We could properly read and understand all the red tape of getting welfare and had an address and phone number for things to be sent to us. I cannot believe that Christians are not standing up in churches and the streets insisting that we care for ALL of our neighbors. I recently got a very disturbing email from a conservative christian group the other day offering a health care plan for christians so they didn't have to pay for the irresponsible health risks results of "others" who don't share their philosophy of (hmmm...perfection...that they will never get sick because they are good people...wake up!!!!). Where are God's people? Lately, I see us arguing over politics instead of arguing within both sides of politics and saying, we don't care which side, we want to care for our neighbors because we are a christian nation. That's what I'm thinking about. Here are my thoughts on poverty. Here’s the shocker…I am completely and fully in support of insisting that our government takes care of the basic needs of the people — for example, health care, which is one of the number one things driving people to poverty. I believe as Christians and Americans we should insist that we - us - the tax payers - each and everyone one of us - insist that people have basic healthcare and housing. I do not fully subscribe to any political party, because I cannot find one that matches up to Jesus’ instructions to us. We should be insisting that our government - the government of a people that overwhelmingly claim to be Christian - no matter which side of the aisle - start taking care of their neighbors!

One way to end the tyranny of the health care system which leads and leaves many people to poverty is to insist on loving our neighbors as ourselves and making sure as a nation as christians that we systematically care for our neighbors and then we in the church can fill in the gaps because there will always be gaps. Right now, there are not gaps, there are oceans and abysses. But, at this point, help for the poor is for the lucky ones. And, the lucky ones are being helped by christian organizations. But, so many are out in the streets because they cannot get medications properly for mental illnesses and physical illnesses that they need to survive in this world.

I have a college education, got sick, lost my job and we lost everything, except we were lucky. We could properly read and understand all the red tape of getting welfare and had an address and phone number for things to be sent to us. I cannot believe that Christians are not standing up in churches and the streets insisting that we care for ALL of our neighbors.

I recently got a very disturbing email from a conservative christian group the other day offering a health care plan for christians so they didn’t have to pay for the irresponsible health risks results of “others” who don’t share their philosophy of (hmmm…perfection…that they will never get sick because they are good people…wake up!!!!).

Where are God’s people? Lately, I see us arguing over politics instead of arguing within both sides of politics and saying, we don’t care which side, we want to care for our neighbors because we are a christian nation.

That’s what I’m thinking about.

]]> By: Which one is it, Jesus? http://www.uffizimission.org/postmodernism/which-one-is-it-jesus/#comment-44 Which one is it, Jesus? Wed, 14 May 2008 20:33:04 +0000 http://www.uffizimission.org/postmodernism/which-one-is-it-jesus/#comment-44 [...] Mark D. Roberts wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptAnother pastor wandered over, gave me a bit of a condescending look, and said, “You know, Jesus said the poor would always be with us.” I got the message - “don’t get too excited about the social justice bit…” I know this because he did … [...] […] Mark D. Roberts wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptAnother pastor wandered over, gave me a bit of a condescending look, and said, “You know, Jesus said the poor would always be with us.” I got the message - “don’t get too excited about the social justice bit…” I know this because he did … […]

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