THANKS ROB!!
Sheesh! Rob Kilpatrick and the team at Tranzsend won't let us off the hook easily will they? Last week the theme of Self-Denial was they (the poor) are found wanting. This week the theme is we are found wanting. The Tranzsend handout says:
Millions of people in the world are exploited for their labour. Slavery still exists. Bonded labour and sweatshops entrap millions including children. We can change that. By setting up business enterprises that teach skills to the unskilled, pay fair and just wages, pass the profits back into the communities, and encourage self reliance, we are effecting change for generations. No longer do these people have to sell themselves into a hostile labour market or worse. If we do business for the right reason, from the right world view then we are doing mission. If we fail to ensure justice exists then in God's sight, we are found wanting.
This week's message is that God holds us accountable for the poverty of others. That God will judge us not just for the bad we have done but also the good we have failed to do (e.g. turn a blind eye to exploitation and child labour). How do you feel about this? On the one hand I feel worried whilst on the other I feel a bit beaten up by some of these things. How does this make you feel?
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I personally feel that God will see that we are only human and we are only obliged to do what good we can do within our own limitations. If we miss an opportunity to help the poor or whatever due to our own laziness, God wouldn't be too pleased. But if we miss that same opportunity to do something else equally important or if we miss it to an emergancy, illness or fatigue, God will understand. In essence Christianity is doing all you can to serve humanity, but there is no need to go over board. Just IMHO.