sarah masen
Declining & Rising Rates
by jubejoob on Sat Oct 16 12:58:59 +0000 2004 in The Arsenal
None of your questions ring with any spite to me.
We have a system that seeks looks after look after them, and eats them alive, both at the same time, a wonderful hope, yet becomes the hopelessness. How do you look to reform that? Like I said somewhere in these posts, redemptive comes in relationship, hence without as you point out the personal contact, and finding to personal needs and ways to help address them, my frustration with the uselessness of this system is simply as useless to them. Do currently have a ministry to these people? No I don’t, I do deal with them and seek to help when and where I can, often seeming way to little as my current employment does not leave me with much extra to give in terms of money, with my time I also do what I can with who I can, which always does seem to little.
As far as the current systems go, ya the church is a really long ways from being in a place of heart and finically to be willing and able to begin to even get something in place that could half do what is getting done, and anything we do get going will take years to set-up in most cities and likely longer to move from city to city and so forth to begin to reach all these people in need, in our area, little own the reality being far worse in many other parts of the world. In many ways I don’t want to see more added to these systems that is simply going to bring more of the same problems, a few dollars to train someone how to use a till, to get a min wage job that will not meet their bills is a waste of money spent, and is not going to do anything to help the person into a job, training or the hope they need to get a job that they will gets their needs met finically and emotionally.
There is also the reality that many of those that are calling simply for the end of these programs are seeking for themselves; they do not want to shoulder anything to do with the poor. These ideas are also un redemptive, and replacing one un redemptive with another is well, very un Christ like. On that note, there is the other side, these current systems are far from a glory to God or us and societies, and we really need to see that as such, to help motive us to find answers and push people around us to catch the vision of the need and ways that can be brought about.
