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Date: 16 November 2004 01:56:01
This year our cell group is doing Adopt-a-Family, a local charity organised by the Geelong Advertiser where businesses and community groups can sign up to buy presents and food for families in the region that might otherwise not have a very good Christmas. We got our family today, they're all boys! A single dad with his sons, probably. All very exciting.
This is what I find interesting - the program isn't a Christian Thing at all, but it is a Good Thing. Personally, I think it's important and very worthwhile for the church to get involved in normal charity type things or other community-building activities, without an agenda to preach at the people involved, or even build 'brownie points'. It shows we have a genuine care for them - we want to help even if they never know we are Christians.
But some Christians get a bit funny about that kind of thing and think we should put our efforts into prgrams with more 'eternal consequences' - ie things that don't just help, but also evangelise.
Interesting.