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Old 06-20-2008, 10:53 AM
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It would surely be wrong to suppport someone's drug habit! In giving to whom asks you will likely be doing such!

To buy groceries or give grocery, utility or rent assistance is helpful but to give cash is questionable!

The verses are true, as are the verses advising discernment.
What does 'help' really look like? Not giving cash without question surely.

To give a gospel tract to a hungry person would be terrible just as the verses in James tell us to give help but consider these verses:
'If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; not withstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?' James 2:15
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