According to an official of Micah Challenge Zambia, a heathen community leader in Zambia was so awed by the material contributions of local church leaders that he made a conversion. His testimony is reported: “I didn’t know the church was interested in sanitation. I didn’t know that the church was interested in what kind of water we drink. I didn’t know the church was interested in what kind of roads are in our communities. Had you told me this, I would have become a Christian a long time ago.” TheNewsBeats wonders: had telling the man he was a sinner bound for an eternity in Hell without repenting and accepting Jesus, and His finished work, fallen on deaf ears?
This testimony was shared at The Gathering 2007 in Washington DC sponsored by Bread for the World and the Alliance to End Hunger. Its aim was to motivate Christians to give their own money towards fighting hunger in the world, and also to motivate them to lobby Congress to give other people’s money as well.
Unwittingly noting the materialistic plight of materialistic Christianity, Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World said: “I think all Christian people have experienced the goodness of God and it is that experience of God’s goodness and care that sustains us and makes us want to reach out and change the world and help hungry people in serious ways.” The goodness is intimated to be financial resources; without which other people can’t be impressed enough to become Christians.
There will always be throngs who will follow a religion so long as their wants and desires are met: “Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled” (Joh. 6:26).
No need to worry about the possibility of any Church/State separation issues arising from Christians pressuring the release of Federal tax dollars to be spent by Christians on Christian causes. None other than that great Christian body the United Nations is already in league with Bread for the World with their Millennium Campaign. And it won’t take much secular funds. According to the Campaign director, Salil Shetty, they only need to pry lose from tax coffers an additional $75billion to meet goals established for 2015.
David Dansker
Read it here in the Christian Post
