![]() When I looked leprosy up in my concordance, it said “a severe skin disease, figurative of moral or spiritual disease …” There are many that suffer various illnesses due to their lack of self-control - obesity or diabetes based upon self-indulgence, emphysema or lung cancer because of an addiction to tobacco, STD’s due to similar “if it feels good, do it” attitudes … Poverty is the fruit of idleness and idleness is a sin.Ī disease that is mentioned numerous times in the scriptures is leprosy. Is it my imagination, or do other countries dislike America so because for a time we exemplified the hard work ethic that allowed our citizens to succeed? Not so much now that we’ve become a welfare state, apologizing for the “hardships” that so many of our citizens willingly choose to endure due to their lack of initiative. Becoming consumed with bitterness bred by envy. Nurturing envy for things they are too lazy to work for. There are so many who would rather sit on their backsides and wait for the handout, whining about how poor they are, when they are capable of earning their keep. 10For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.” 9We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to make ourselves a model for you to follow. Worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be aīurden to any of you. We were not idle when we were with you, 8norĭid we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. 7For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. Who is idle and does not live according to the teaching you received from us. ![]() Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother But hear me out as I comment in a “off the top of my head” fashion: I do not have time to write a lengthy dissertation on my observations, and I’d like to include a brief disclaimer here that there are situations in which people are stricken by such as these with little apparent reason. If you look at the tragedies that are poverty, disease, destruction, and death … these are the end result of man’s propensity to sin. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.” (NIV)īasically, Warren is ignoring the hemorrhagic wound that is sin. Jeremiah 6:14 says, “They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. as I contemplate this, a snippet of scripture comes to mind and I pull out my trusty Bible to see if I can find it. The common good of all Americans.” Warren’s P.E.A.C.E. ![]() If you choose to do business with this business, please let the business know that you contacted BBB for a BBB Business Profile.Īs a matter of policy, BBB does not endorse any product, service or business.I ran across this article in my email box earlier this evening: “According to Christian broadcaster and author Tom McMahon, Pastor Rick Warren will be hosting an interfaith meeting next month withģ0 Christian, Jewish, and Muslim leaders “to discuss cooperation for BBB Business Profiles are subject to change at any time. ![]() When considering complaint information, please take into account the company's size and volume of transactions, and understand that the nature of complaints and a firm's responses to them are often more important than the number of complaints.īBB Business Profiles generally cover a three-year reporting period. However, BBB does not verify the accuracy of information provided by third parties, and does not guarantee the accuracy of any information in Business Profiles. BBB asks third parties who publish complaints, reviews and/or responses on this website to affirm that the information provided is accurate. BBB Business Profiles may not be reproduced for sales or promotional purposes.īBB Business Profiles are provided solely to assist you in exercising your own best judgment.
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