Supporting The Poor

Supporting The Poor PRO

Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 8, 2013 (message contributor)

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Scripture: Romans 15:26, Galatians 2:10

Tags: Charitable, Poor, Benevolence, Helping Poor

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

SUPPORTING THE POOR

In a 1998 article in Christian History magazine, Rodney Stark said: "In a world lacking social services, Christians were their brothers' keepers. At the end of the second century AD, Tertullian wrote that while pagan temples spend their donations "on feasts and drinking bouts," Christians spent theirs "to support and bury poor people, to supply the wants of boys and girls destitute of means and parents, and of old persons confined to the house." These claims concerning...

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Scriptures: Galatians 2:10, Romans 15:26

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