tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post7966733187490641026..comments2024-03-19T10:45:06.077+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Almsgiving - what ought Christians to do about it in a society without Biblical poverty?Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-82764893656251780012012-07-26T11:49:49.685+01:002012-07-26T11:49:49.685+01:00@Gyan - there is never any answer to questions phr...@Gyan - there is never any answer to questions phrased as 'why not?'. <br /><br />There are an infinite number of things which cannot be rejected in principle - the question is whether this is what Christian almsgiving implies.<br /><br />Was it intended that almsgiving become an indirect matter of responding to emotive TV documentaries and advertizing campaigns? <br /><br />The ideal is to respond to the needs of neighbours, implicitly a matter of direct, person to person action. <br /><br />And if almsgiving really were to involve scouring the world in search of real poverty to alleviate, then where does this leave the other duties of a Christian?Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-7957363977559230972012-07-26T10:56:30.916+01:002012-07-26T10:56:30.916+01:00"Not, surely, to scour the world in search of..."Not, surely, to scour the world in search of genuine poor "<br /><br />And why not?<br />It is no obvious to me.Gyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09941686166886986037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-83778740388218483362012-07-25T15:46:06.467+01:002012-07-25T15:46:06.467+01:00@Dale - your first suggestion I would place under ...@Dale - your first suggestion I would place under a broad concept of evangelism - although in the UK home schooling is mostly done by Hippy/ New Age types. The second suggestion would require action to change the British weather, since the main enemy of nocturnal visibility here is clouds rather than light pollution ;-).Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-92129459792117341722012-07-25T15:07:04.296+01:002012-07-25T15:07:04.296+01:00A couple of opportunities for financial giving tha...A couple of opportunities for financial giving that might be overlooked: (1) Christian-based or Christian-sympathetic home education organizations, such as the Home School Legal defense Association; (2)the International Dark-Sky Association. The latter is a cause that should make excellent sense to Christians, since the stars are so important in the Bible and Christian heritage as testimonies of the Creator's power and of the beautiful as derived from Him.<br /><br />http://www.hslda.org/<br /><br />http://www.darksky.org/Wurmbrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345523517796356674noreply@blogger.com