John Chrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople, on responding to appeals for help. Conversation could in some cases “recover” the person as well as money. He says the biblical commands to give, period, may be God’s design to create opportunities for connection, and learning of people’s misfortunes.
Some today are using the state to prevent these human connections.
How can you talk to someone in misfortune today?
Peter Parker, Presbyterian medical missionary to China, answers Christians opposing his work.
He says to object to missionaries helping people’s temporal ailments indicts our Savior, who taught of eternal interests & alleviated bodily sufferings.
Do we want to be on a higher plane than Jesus & Peter? It is a higher plane to sit on a prayer couch & think up harsh statements?
How can we follow Jesus & Parker in both?
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