[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Trapped

I hear you. The "we have/they don't", "we know/they don't", "we are/they are not" thing riles me up.

As a kid I heard saints say on multiple occasions of other churches, "Ughh....they don't even know that the church isn't a physical building! They think it's the structure on the corner of the street!" with a haughty self-righteous attitude. Even as a young person who grew up steeped in it, I knew that attitude was not okay.

And guess what! Other churches actually take care of needy people without any thought or expectation of return or them joining their church to increase their "annual growth numbers"! Those "poor Christians" just express Jesus with their human caring hearts and give needy people food or supplies or their time to meet their human need! And the local churches don't. So we're even.

My Christian auto mechanics shop does more for the needy then the LC ever did. Every year they ask their customers to bring bags of food for the county food bank. Those who need brakes, get them free.

Real Christians DO NOT spend their lives playing word games such as these to bribe their consciences.