How Much is Enough?
That's a question I've been struggling with since the end of MY. How much money do I give away and how much can I spend on myself and not feel guilty? Ten percent seems like a good place to start, but that is a flexible number since Jesus never prescribes tithing, at least not that I can tell.
So read the article at the bottom of this page entitled, "Does Jesus Want me to be Poor?" It's alright, but there's something missing, and I'm not sure exactly what that is. What do you think?
posted by A. Lo @ 11:57 AM
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Empathy. That's what's missing.
The author is not sincerely concerned with starving people. She's playing the rich young ruler's game of "how good do I have to be". So if that woman had interviewed God, I think she would have gotten the answer, "Sorry, you have to give away all of it." And come to think of it, that's probably God's answer for me, and for you too.
But playing "how good do I have to be" misses the point. God doesn't want us to give away our things so that we can earn enough points to be loved. God wants us to give away our things because other people need our things more than we need them. God wants us to give away our money because God's sister, mother, brother, husband, wife, father and child are suffering. They don't have enough damn food to eat. And God wants us to feed them, not so we can be good, but because they're people, and they're hungry.
So the plan of giving that I'm trying make myself follow is this:
Feed as many people as you can.
Then suck it up and feed one more.
Repeat until everyone is fed.
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